MASS KILLING – A terrorist attack planned for October 7 in New York has been foiled, the United States has announced. Arrested in Canada, the suspect, a 20-year-old Pakistani, was planning to attack a Jewish center in Brooklyn.
The United States said Friday it had foiled a “terrorist attack” against Jews in New York that was allegedly carried out around October 7 in the name of the Islamic State group (IS). A Pakistani suspect living in Canada was reportedly arrested.
The 20-year-old, “Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, aka Shazeb Jadoon, attempted to enter the United States to commit a mass shooting at a Jewish center in New York City,” the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. He was arrested in Canada on September 4 following a request from the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office.
“To massacre as many Jews as possible”
“The defendant is suspected of planning a terrorist attack around October 7 of this year with the stated goal of massacring, in the name of ISIS, as many Jews as possible,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said. FBI Director Christopher Wray said the young Pakistani was “determined to kill Jews here in the United States, nearly a year after Hamas’s heinous attack on Israel.”
According to the investigation by the FBI and the federal prosecutor’s office in New York, cited in the press release, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, residing in Canada, attempted(…) - 20minutes
