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Emanuel Lutchman

Emanuel Lutchman (born 1990) was an Islamic State supporter who planned to attack a Rochester, New York bar with a machete, knives, and pressure-cooker bombs on New Years' Eve in 2015.

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Emanuel Lutchman was born in 1990 to a family of African-Americans in Rochester, New York. He converted to Sunni Islam and became a radical, and in December 2015 he planned to attack a bar with knives, a machete, and pressure-cooker bombs to prove that he was worthy of joining the Islamic State. However, he was arrested on 31 December 2015 before he could carry out his attack, saving New Years' Eve from a terrorist attack.

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