The teen protestors charged with hurling an IED at Gracie Mansion are self-radicalized ISIS nuts who packed the bomb with an explosive known as “Mother of Satan,” law enforcement sources close to the case told The Post.
The two pro-Muslim fanatics – Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18 – admitted to cops after getting busted at the rowdy demonstration Saturday that they watch ISIS videos and tossed the bomb at right-wing agitators because they felt they insulted their religion, the sources said.
The homemade device consisted of sports drink bottles filled with triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a substance favored by terrorists and known as “Mother of Satan” — which is so volatile that it typically doesn’t require a fuse to go off, they said.
The same type of bomb was used in high-profile terror attacks in France and the UK in the past.
Fortunately, it failed to go off during the Saturday afternoon clash between demonstrators backing right-wing activist Jake Lang and pro-Muslim counter-protestors.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch denounced earlier reports that the device was a smoke bomb or a hoax, and said it would have killed or maimed anyone near it had it exploded.
The NYPD and the FBI are now working the case, with search warrants being executed at the Pennsylvania homes of Kayumi and Balat on Sunday, the sources said.
