Two ISIS-inspired bombing suspects were caught musing about blowing up white supremacist Jake Lang and maiming up to 60 victims — both cops and civilians — in dashcam footage from their car ride to an anti-Muslim protest outside Gracie Mansion last month, according to a bombshell indictment.
Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were indicted on Tuesday for allegedly hurling two homemade incendiary devices in an ISIS-inspired March 7 attack during the dueling protests outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official residence.
The two homegrown terrorists were caught on footage — from a built-in dashboard camera on their car ride from Pennsylvania to Manhattan — casually chatting about how they planned to target Lang, who organized the hateful rally, and hoped he would be “split in half” in the bombing attack.
The pair also discussed how they wished for maximum casuaulites — and their chilling backup plan to toss them in a cafe if all else failed, according to court documents.
“All I know is I want to start terror, bro,” Kayumi allegedly said in the recording, per the indictment. “I want to petrify these people.”
“Oh yeah, what do you think, are they going to remove the airplanes for us… over New York? Are they going to stop them? If we do the attack and the bombs go off and everything,” Balat then asked.
“First call, they’re going to be like this is us targeting [Individual-1],” Kayumi responded. The “individual-1” is referencing Lang, a right-wing agitator and pardoned January 6 rioter, law enforcement sources said.
Balat then explained that he was also hoping to target “the government” and “civilians also,” to which Kayumi replied, “Yeah, I know.”
He then detailed how he had put a specific amount of Triacetone triperoxide, an explosive known as “TATP,” to kill roughly 8 to 16 people or as many as 60 people if the area was crowded.
After the two discussed how they planned to hide the bomb and flee back to the car, Balat said he just “can’t wait for that bomb to go off and his [Lang’s] freaking head, his body to get split in half, bro, dead.”
“Bro, this is so cool,” Kayumi allegedly calmly responded.
“I’m gonna just start attacking police,” Balat added, later stating that if their primary plan “doesn’t work,” they “could also throw it [a device] in the café.”
Kayumi and Balat allegedly lobbed the deadly munitions at the crowd of protesters and counter-protesters, but the IED’s miraculously did not detonate. Heroic police officers tackled Balat and arrested the pair upon spotting the bombs.
“This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk bad about… our prophet. We take action! We take action!” Balat allegedly told officers en route to the precinct. “If I don’t do it, someone else will come and do it.”
The teen also admitted to police in the precinct that he had consumed “radical content” online.
A search of the car they traveled in, which was registered to a relative, revealed a notebook filled with bomb-making instructions and an alternative plan for a terrorist attack involving a large vehicle.
In an FBI search of a storage facility in Langhorne, Pa., agents also discovered explosive residue and bombmaking supplies.
In the center of the storage unit was a piece of paper with a chilling, ISIS-inspired handwritten note saying “All praise is due to Allah!!! [D]ie in your rage ya kuffar!”
Balat and Kayumi are now being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on federal charges.
“These individuals allegedly prepared explosive devices and attempted to detonate them on the streets of New York in the name of ISIS, but their plan failed thanks to the brave police officers who acted quickly,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
“The FBI and our law enforcement partners are determined to protect the homeland from terrorism or other acts of violence, and our partnerships are key to carrying out that mission,” Patel said.
“We also will make sure anyone who tries to harm our citizens in the name of ISIS, or any other terrorist organization, will face justice.”
Balat’s attorney, Mehdi Essimidi, declined to comment on the indictment when reached by The Post on Tuesday night.
The public defenders representing Kayumi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is still not clear how the two youngsters knew each other and how long they had been coordinating the bombing attack.
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