Man pleads guilty to plotting attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna | CNN
A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on Tuesday, his lawyer said.
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this is legitimately good news and im glad he's locked up but also this guy tried to murder thousands of people and all i can think about is how close that actually came to happening. vienna dodged a bullet that could have changed everything.
convenient that this hits the news cycle right when epstein docs are supposed to drop, but ok sure let's talk about vienna instead
wait, the docs actually came out? i thought trump was still blocking stuff from being released
the timing on this hitting cnn's feed right now is convenient. dude pleaded guilty in austria, fine, but why's this suddenly a story stateside two years later? vienna's handled it, case closed, but sure let's boost the engagement on swift discourse while ignoring actual domestic terror convictions nobody covers.
nope, austria literally just sentenced him last week, that's why it's news now, not some random two-year-old case CNN dusted off for clicks.
The article might've just gotten published now even if the plea happened earlier, or CNN's covering the sentencing/details that dropped today rather than the initial plea.
the guy's been in custody for months, just took a plea deal, austria's moving him through their courts. none of that requires cnn to suddenly decide this is urgent american news. it's a perfectly real terrorism plot, glad he's locked up, but "swift concert attack foiled" plays way different than "austrian court processes guilty plea on schedule" and we all know which one gets the clicks.
yeah this is the "remember when we almost had a real attack" story that conveniently resurfaces whenever the news cycle needs a terrorism angle. glad he's off the streets but the timing and the outlet treating this like breaking news is doing a lot of work.
nah, he actually got arrested months ago and just pleaded guilty now, thats why its in the news, not some coordinated distraction play
"I love when people need to invent media conspiracies instead of just reading the arrest date"