{"id":214024,"date":"2016-01-05T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=214024"},"modified":"2016-01-05T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:59:04","slug":"man-charged-planning-non-attack-behalf-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/man-charged-planning-non-attack-behalf-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged With Planning (Non-) Attack on Behalf of ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 25 percent of your grade this term, compare and contrast the following two true descriptions of the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The opening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/01\/nyregion\/rochester-man-charged-with-planning-attack-on-behalf-of-isis.html\">New York Times<\/a> story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 25-year-old man in Rochester has been arrested and charged with preparing to stage a New Year\u2019s Eve machete attack on diners at a local restaurant on behalf of the Islamic State. The man, Emanuel L. Lutchman, is accused of gathering knives, a machete, ski masks and zip ties as part of his plan to raid the restaurant and possibly kidnap someone, taking advantage of what a self-identified Islamic State member overseas described as his position \u201cbehind enemy lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lutchman appeared in federal court in Rochester on Thursday on a charge of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, as he pursued a goal of joining the terrorist organization overseas. \u201cThis New Year\u2019s Eve prosecution underscores the threat of ISIL even in upstate New York but demonstrates our determination to immediately stop any who would cause harm in its name,\u201d William J. Hochul Jr., the United States attorney in Buffalo, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, we learn later in the same article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/J7KmicHrTpQ\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 25 percent of your grade this term, compare and contrast the following two true descriptions of the same thing. The opening to the New York Times story: A 25-year-old man in Rochester has been arrested and charged with preparing to stage a New Year\u2019s Eve machete attack on diners at a local restaurant on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}