Judicial documents showed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested an 18-year-old young man who was planning to carry out a mass shooting at the Mall of America near Minneapolis in the name of ISIS.
He was arrested on Tuesday after an undercover FBI agent sold this young man from Minnesota, named Sheikhdon Abdullah Muhammad, a rifle, ammunition and bullet magazines for $600, according to the documents. Muhammad told the agent that he planned to use these weapons to kill between 30 and 60 people during an event held in the mall in late October.
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Muhammad is charged with one count of intentional possession of a firearm and ammunition with the aim of committing a terrorist act. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to the documents, Mohammed told a source affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation via various communication platforms that he intends to travel abroad to fight under the banner of Al-Shabaab, which is classified as a foreign terrorist organization. He said that if he was unable to travel, he planned to carry out a mass shooting. He later expressed his desire to join ISIS.
Muhammad said in July that he wanted to kill between 30 and 60 people at the Mall of America because he claimed that the owners were Jewish, and that he wanted to kill non-Muslims. He told the agent that he planned to launch an attack on October 24 during a Hmong Arts Concert that day at the mall.
Mall of America is the largest mall in the United States, and includes an amusement park, a huge aquarium, and more than 500 stores.
Muhammad appeared for the first time before US Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright on Wednesday.
The White House announced that US President Donald Trump intends to honor Elon Musk and other directors of major technology companies with the highest scientific award in a ceremony to be held on Thursday.
Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Musk during the “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, and to Sergey Brin, who helped found Google, Jensen Huang, director of NVIDIA, and Lisa Su, director of AMD.
As for Michael Dell (Dell Technologies) and Satya Nadella (Microsoft), they will be honored with the National Medal for Technology and Innovation, the highest award in this field.
White House spokeswoman Liz Houston said in a statement, “The Trump administration is grateful for the contributions of these wonderful leaders in the field of science and technology. Thanks to them, America remains at the forefront of innovation.”
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He was also among a group of technology giants' managers who attended a meeting at the White House with the president last week about ways to control artificial intelligence technology.
Musk was invited, along with Huang and others, to the dinner that Trump hosted in honor of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during his official visit last month.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but acknowledged that there are doubts about his chances of winning it.
Regarding the 2026 prize that the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce on Friday, Trump said, “I don’t know what their decision will be.” “They have a reputation that they might not give to people like me.”
Trump has repeatedly repeated since his return to the White House last year that he deserves what can be described as the highest status award in the world.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “The time has come... but I was very honored to receive it indirectly last time from the winner, who said that no one in history deserves it more than President Trump.”
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado handed over the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump in January, as part of her effort to obtain US support for her efforts in Venezuela.
Trump believes that he deserves the award after his involvement in efforts to resolve eight conflicts since he took office.
The leaders of Cambodia, Israel and Pakistan said they nominated Trump, but there is no way to verify this.
Parties in some of the conflicts that Trump says he has resolved are skeptical about the US president's diplomatic role, and clashes have broken out again in some of those areas, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on the border between Cambodia and Thailand.
Trump was unable to reach a solution to the Russian war in Ukraine, even though he promised to end it on the first day of his second term in the White House. US-Israeli strikes on Iran sparked a seven-month conflict, disrupting global energy supplies and rising gas prices ahead of midterm elections in November.
It should be noted that Pope Leo, the International Criminal Court, and the Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories are among the most likely candidates to win the award this year.
