Chapter 1: What new evidence has emerged about the Bondi Beach massacre?
New evidence deepens the terror connection in the horrific Bondi Beach massacre. The U.S. offers security guarantees for Ukraine. And the Trump administration drops a new website for Christmas. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, December 16th. This is Evening Wire.
More details have emerged about the deadly Islamic terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest.
Australian authorities say the two gunmen responsible for the Bondi Beach massacre had improvised explosives and homemade ISIS flags in their car when they opened fire on the beachfront Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people.
Federal Police Commissioner Chrissy Barrett says Saeed and Naveed Akram carried out, quote, a terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State and had traveled to ISIS-linked areas of the Philippines weeks before the shooting.
Despite those findings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says there is no evidence the pair were part of a larger terror cell, though the younger Akram had previously been questioned over ties to known extremists.
The son first came to attention in October 2019. He was examined on the basis of being associated with others. And the assessment was made that there was no indication of any ongoing threat or threat of him engaging in violence. What's important is that the authorities be enabled to do their work.
The two American service members killed by an ISIS gunman in Syria last week were publicly identified on Monday. 25-year-old Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres Tovar of Des Moines, Iowa, and 29-year-old Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard of Marshalltown, Iowa, were both members of the Iowa National Guard deployed to Syria to support counterterrorism operations.
Tributes have poured in online, including from War Secretary Hegseth and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who ordered flags in Iowa to be flown at half-staff. In a statement, the governor said, Sergeant Howard and Sergeant Torres served our state and nation with honor and in doing so gave the ultimate sacrifice. We are grateful for their service and deeply mourn their loss.
Five men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamic terror attack on a Christmas market. Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler has more.
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Chapter 2: How are U.S. security guarantees impacting Ukraine?
Bavaria's state interior minister said that excellent cooperation among security services helped prevent a, quote, potentially Islamist-motivated attack. Germany has suffered a series of Christmas market attacks, including one last year that killed six people.
The U.S. is offering security assurances to Ukraine in an effort to break stalled peace talks. European partners have expressed their willingness to offer their own assurances, but stressed that at least some commitment from the U.S. would also be necessary. While Ukraine territorial concessions remain a major sticking point, many hope U.S.
assurances against future Russian aggression could be the last push needed to bring the war to an end. President Trump is suing the BBC for billions of dollars over what he calls a malicious documentary. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce has the details. The president filed a $10 billion lawsuit Monday over a BBC documentary that edited his January 6, 2021 address in D.C.
to create a, quote, false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of him. The documentary spliced together two small parts of the lengthy speech separated by 55 minutes. And it also left out Trump's explicit calls for supporters to protest peacefully and patriotically.
Chapter 3: What details are revealed about the ISIS gunmen in the Bondi Beach attack?
The lawsuit states that the result was to, quote, make it appear that President Trump explicitly called for violent action and rioting. The doctoring of the footage creates what Trump's team calls a distortion of meaning by splicing entirely unrelated word sequences.
And it's, quote, part of the BBC's longstanding pattern of manipulating President Trump's speeches and presenting content in a misleading manner in order to defame him, including fabricating calls for violence that he never made. President Trump has announced the classification of illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. Daily Wire immigration reporter Ginny Thayer has the story.
Trump's new executive order opens the door for the federal government to go even harder against the drug cartels. It enhances penalties for fentanyl traffickers and tasks the Department of War with countering the cartels producing the lethal narcotic. Here's the president Monday.
No bomb does what this is doing. 200,000 to 300,000 people die every year that we know of. So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Trump's former acting Drug Enforcement Administrator, Derek Maltz, told The Daily Wire that the designation has been a long time coming and that it will shut down the cartel's financing. He said that it will also allow the Department of War to use all capabilities, authorities, and expertise to up the game at a new level.
With this new designation, they will also be able to add the additional deadly chemical substances like nitazines, class of poison being made in adversarial labs to kill our citizens, Maltz said. The Department of War has escalated a review of Democratic Senator Mark Kelly to an official command investigation. Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more.
A department official told the Daily Wire Monday of the escalation, noting that retired Captain Kelly, quote, is currently under investigation for serious allegations of misconduct and that further official comments will be limited to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.
The department initiated a review of Kelly in November after the senator joined five other Democratic lawmakers in a video urging military members to disobey, quote, illegal orders. Then last week, the U.S. Navy sent a report to War Secretary Hegseth on a review of Kelly's actions.
The senator faces being potentially recalled to active duty to undergo, quote, court martial proceedings or administrative measures. Meanwhile, Secretary Hegseth is spearheading a plan to consolidate U.S. military command centers. The shift would be the most drastic reorganization of the military in decades. Under the plan, U.S.
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