Suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift’s concerts in Austria hoped to kill « tens of thousands » of people, CIA deputy chief says.
The suspects in the concerts in Vienna earlier this month wanted to kill « tens of thousands » of the artist’s fans, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen said Wednesday at a security conference in Maryland.
« They were plotting to kill a huge number — tens of thousands of people at this concert, including, I am sure, many Americans — and were quite advanced in this », Cohen said, according to The Associated Press. « The Austrians were able to make those arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do. »
Swift’s Vienna concerts, which would have begun on Aug.
