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FBI disrupts plot targeting UFC event at White House with explosive drones: Sources 69%
6/16/2026, 5:18:25 AM
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But first, we have breaking news. The
FBI says it disrupted an alleged plot targeting the White House UFC event.
Sources tell ABC News it involved using explosive drones to cause a massive evacuation, then a second wave of attacks on those evacuating.
Now,
sources say five people are in custody.
ABC News contributor, former FBI agent
Brad Garrett's here for more.
Hi Brad,
what do you make of what we are hearing about this plan so far?
This is drones to cause a massive evacuation, and then this plan to rush the checkpoint.
>> Impressive as far as sort of the layers of attack that this group had come up with.
How realistic? That's another story, but the idea that you could
uh apparently uh send drones in with weapons, explosives on them to to their words, hit buildings causing panic, causing evacuation, and then driving the people away.
Again, Diane, probably
presumably away from less law enforcement to like metro stops, subways, etc.
And then have pre-staged snipers to shoot people at those locations.
Again, it's a bit grandiose,
but you you just never know.
Could part of it have worked?
And the answer is yes.
>> Brad, it sounds like a pretty elaborate scheme.
Does Do you need a certain level of expertise to pull something like this off?
Does this tell you anything about who might be behind it?
>> Well, I I think we overestimate sometimes the the level of planning.
Now, granted, learning how to fly drones, there's a lot of people know how to fly drones.
Putting explosives on them, unfortunately, Diane, you can probably learn online how to do that.
With the the massive number of drones that are used in the, you know, the current wars around the world.
Um Uh, snipers are another story.
Could you put them in a position where and then they were trained to actually be snipers?
You're now getting into a potential expertise.
But, uh, it's a lot of moving parts.
It's a lot of hands.
It also doesn't surprise me that they got caught.
Uh, they mentioned the FBI mentions like 23 other people they intercepted um,
through WhatsApp or some other uh, social media site.
Um, and it's difficult to keep the lid on what you're doing when you got that many people involved.
>> The sources say plans were discussed, these plans at least were discussed on Signal chats.
Does the FBI investigate chats like that regularly?
>> Well, they investigate them, Diane, when they know about them.
This think about the literally billions of messages that are sent out every day.
They really have to rely heavily at times on two things.
Sources, people coming forward saying,
"Hey, this is there's a guy talking about doing X."
Um, or the the site itself that supposedly police their sites pick up information.
This is obviously very disturbing and they pass it on to law enforcement.
enforcement. So, it sort of comes two ways.
ways. I mean, you can't realistically monitor all of these sites unless you maybe have advanced intelligence.
>> Five people are in custody, but sources say at least 23 people are thought to have been involved in this plot.
So, what are the next steps in this investigation?
>> To to where else does this go, Diane?
If you have that many people involved and to your point, the sort of the level of organization of this, you could transplant what we just talked about to some other location.
location. So, of those 23, who are they connected to?
Who are they talking to?
There's a lot of work here to be done,
but we'll have to see where else it might go.
>> All right, Brad Garrett, thank you.
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