A 20-year-old Pakistani youth living in Canada, Mohammad Shahzeb Khan, was arrested on charges of trying to help ISIS.
The American media claimed about the arrest of Muhammad Shahzeb that he was trying to target civilians in the Jewish center of New York.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan was arrested in Canada on a complaint from New York. Twenty-year-old Muhammad Shahzeb Khan planned a massacre at a Jewish center in Brooklyn using automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed in a statement that Muhammad Shahzeb Khan had planned to kill as many Jews as possible in a terrorist attack in New York City around October 7, but the FBI and Canadian authorities failed to do so in time. Due to the action, the said plot was foiled.
According to the prosecutor, the accused was coming to New York from Canada to execute the plan.
Canadian authorities arrested Shahzeb on September 4 when he was trying to enter the United States. He was taken into custody in Orsomtown, 12 miles from the New York border.
According to the prosecutor, the accused also changed the vehicle three times during his journey until he reached the US border.
Mohammad Shahzeb Khan reportedly told intelligence agencies that the attacks on October 7 and October 11 were intended to target Jews in New York, exactly one year after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
If convicted, Mohammad Shahzeb Khan could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
The prosecutor’s office has declined to answer questions about where the suspect, Shahzeb, is being held and when he will be brought to the United States to face charges.
In a conversation with two undercover law enforcement officials, Shahzeb Khan said he was trying to create a “real offline cell” to attack Israeli Jews in America.
According to the Department of Justice, Shahzeb Khan said that he and US-based ISIS supporters needed weapons, knives and other equipment for the attacks.
Shahzeb Khan also gave information about how he would cross the Canadian border into the United States and also said that on October 7, which is the anniversary of Hamas attacks on Israel, the Jews would be killed. They will attack the center or on October 11, which is a Jewish holiday.
According to the Department of Justice, “on August 20, Shahzeb Khan told secret police officials that he wanted to go to New York because of the large Jewish population there and also send them photos of the inside of the Jewish Center where he was planning the attack.” were.’
According to the authorities, the accused in an online message called Brooklyn, New York the headquarters of the Jews.
The suspect left Toronto in a car on Wednesday morning and was stopped and arrested by the police in the Armstown area, which is 19 kilometers from the border.
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2024-09-08 14:28:26