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DALLAS, USA: The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas left behind a collection of notes at his home saying he acted alone in an attack that was intended to terrorize ICE agents and minimize harm to detainees at the facility, officials said on Thursday.
Nancy Larson, acting US attorney for the northern district of Texas, said at a news conference that the shooter’s writings were discovered during a search of his home in Fairview, Texas, following Wednesday’s pre-dawn shooting.
Earlier in the day, FBI Director Kash Patel said the suspect had searched for apps in August that track the location of ICE agents and downloaded a list of local Department of Homeland Security facilities.

Patel also said in a social media post that investigators determined that the suspect had researched video of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s highly publicized assassination before carrying out Wednesday’s pre-dawn attack in Texas.
One immigration detainee at the Dallas site was shot dead and two others were critically wounded. No federal personnel were injured in the incident.

EVIDENCE THAT ICE WAS A TARGET
Within hours of the shooting, the FBI released a photo of an unused bullet found inscribed with the phrase “ANTI-ICE,” an early piece of evidence, officials said, that the immigration enforcement agency was the target.
The perpetrator, who the FBI said had opened fire from the rooftop of a nearby building, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound afterward, Larson told reporters.
He was later identified as Joshua Jahn, 29, a Dallas-area resident who previously attended a community college and had worked as a solar panel installer.
The investigation thus far, Patel said on Thursday, “indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning.”
Patel also outlined additional evidence reinforcing the theory that the attack appeared to have been aimed not at the detainees who were shot but at ICE, the primary enforcement agency of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
According to Patel, a handwritten note recovered from Jahn’s home read: “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’” He did not provide photos or other documentation of the evidence.
Patel also said the suspect had downloaded a document titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” containing a list of DHS facilities. And during a period of several days in August, the perpetrator had searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents.
One of the seriously injured victims is a Mexican citizen, according to Mexico’s foreign ministry. The Dallas shooting came two weeks after Kirk, co-founder of the conservative student political group Turning Point USA and a close ally of Trump, was shot dead by a rooftop sniper during a speaking event in Utah, fueling fears of a new wave of violence in the United States.

NEW DELHI: India signed a $7 billion order on Thursday for 97 domestically designed and built Tejas fighter jets as its air force retires its Russian MiG-21 fleet after decades of use.

One of the world’s largest arms importers, India has made the modernization of its forces a top priority and has made repeated pushes to boost domestic production.

The order for the Tejas fighters is one of the largest in terms of the number of fighter jets ordered by India in a single shot.

The first of the jets — Tejas means “brilliance” in Hindi — were commissioned into the air force in 2016, with the latest order for an upgraded version of the fighter, Mk-1A.

India’s Ministry of Defense said it had “signed a contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for procurement of 97 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk1A, including 68 fighters and 29 twin seaters.”

HAL is a government defense company and more than 100 Indian companies were involved in the manufacturing process, the aircraft having “an indigenous content of over 64 percent,” it said.

“The delivery of these aircraft would commence during 2027-28 and be completed over a period of six years,” the ministry said.

New Delhi is eyeing threats from multiple nations, especially neighboring Pakistan. India fought a four-day conflict in May, their worst clash since 1999.

Both sides claimed victory, each boasting of downing the other’s fighter jets.

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Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in a statement the aircraft would “strengthen defense preparedness.”

“This contract reflects the trust and confidence of the Government and the Armed Forces in the indigenously developed aircraft Tejas, which will be the mainstay of the IAF (Indian Air Force) in the years to come,” he said.

India will hold a fly-past ceremony at a major air force base in Chandigarh on Friday, the final flight of their Soviet-era MiG-21s that have been in use since the 1960s.

An estimated final 36 MiGs will end their service.

India inducted 874 MiG-21s overall, serving in multiple conflicts. However, they also recorded around 400 crashes that killed about 200 Indian pilots over the decades, earning the planes the “the flying coffin” moniker.

Angad Singh, co-author of a book on the MiGs, said New Delhi had “originally planned” to retire the jets by the mid-1990s.

However, those efforts stalled and there was “no choice” but to upgrade them to “squeeze more life out of it,” he said.

India also signed a multi-billion-dollar deal in April to purchase 26 Rafale fighter jets from France’s Dassault Aviation. They will join 36 Rafale fighters already acquired.

Singh said in August India was working with a French company to develop and manufacture fighter jet engines at home.

That followed the announcement in May that New Delhi had approved the prototype of an upgraded Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).

This decade India has opened an expansive helicopter factory, launched its first domestically made aircraft carrier, warships and submarines, and conducted a successful long-range hypersonic missile test.

Its latest test was of an Agni-Prime missile with a 2,000-kilometer (1,242-mile) range on Wednesday — this time fitted on a special railway-based system.