July 4 terror plot thwarted in Cleveland
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🗓️ 3 July 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily Article for Tuesday, |
| 0:05.7 | July 3, 2018. FBI officials announced yesterday that they prevented a terror attack |
| 0:12.9 | planned for July 4th in Cleveland. Demetrius Pitts, also known as Abdur Rahim Rafiq, |
| 0:19.4 | was arrested Sunday morning by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. |
| 0:23.8 | An FBI undercover agent began meeting with Pitts after he went on social media to express |
| 0:29.0 | hatred of the U.S. and allegiance to al-Qaeda. The agent developed a relationship with a would-be |
| 0:34.8 | terrorist who told him of his plans to plant a bomb at a |
| 0:38.3 | Fourth of July parade. In other news, Trooper Nicholas Clark was among the responders to a 911 |
| 0:44.3 | call early Monday morning in Irwin, New York. He was shot and killed. Trooper Clark was 29 years old, |
| 0:51.3 | and is survived by his parents and a brother. The unnamed FBI agent and Trooper Clark was 29 years old and is survived by his parents and a brother. |
| 0:55.7 | The unnamed FBI agent and Trooper Clark are just two of many Americans willing to risk |
| 1:00.6 | their lives for their fellow Americans. |
| 1:04.1 | The Battle of Gettysburg ended on July 3, 1863. |
| 1:08.1 | It's typically considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. |
| 1:12.9 | Why did this critical battle begin when and where it did? |
| 1:16.4 | The History News Network answers our question, it was because of a shoe. |
| 1:22.1 | The Brogan was the standard issue soldier's shoe during the war. |
| 1:26.6 | It was made of two pieces of leather stitched |
| 1:28.5 | together to a wooden sole with four eyelids and a cowhide lace. It was typically made straight |
| 1:34.5 | last, meaning that the left and right shoes were identical. As uncomfortable as these shoes |
| 1:39.9 | were, they were essential to a soldier's survival. A soldier with shoes had a significant advantage |
| 1:45.9 | over his barefoot enemy, and the weather and outdoor conditions on which soldiers marched |
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