New York: Terrorist assault on Jewish heart on October 7 foiled | EUROtoday

According to the Justice Department, the USA has foiled a “terrorist attack” on a Jewish heart in New York. A Pakistani dwelling in Canada needed to hold out an assault on October seventh within the title of the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS), the US Justice Department introduced on Friday. On October seventh a 12 months in the past, the unconventional Islamic Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel. The main assault triggered the warfare within the Gaza Strip.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, alias Shahzeb Hadoon, tried to enter the United States “to commit a massacre at a Jewish center in New York,” the ministry stated. He was arrested in Canada on September 4 on the request of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

“The defendant is suspected of planning a terrorist attack on or around October 7 with the stated goal of murdering as many Jews as possible in the name of ISIS,” stated US Attorney General Merrick Garland.

FBI Director Christopher Wray stated the Pakistani was “determined to kill Jews here in the United States, less than a year after Hamas' horrific attack on Israel” on October 7, 2023.

According to the assertion, the FBI and New York prosecutor's investigations revealed that Khan, who lives in Canada, was making an attempt to journey to New York, the place he, as a supporter of IS, deliberate to “cause a bloodbath in a Jewish center in Brooklyn with automatic and semi-automatic weapons.” There are round six million Jews dwelling within the United States, making it the nation with the biggest Jewish inhabitants after Israel.

Suspect was beneath surveillance for nearly a 12 months

According to the US Department of Justice, the 20-year-old Pakistani had been beneath surveillance since November, primarily due to his messages on on-line networks, his encrypted communications and the “distribution of videos and literature containing IS propaganda.” Garland thanked the Canadian authorities for “their quick action and the arrest of the accused.”