Man arrested for ISIS-inspired plot to ‘slaughter’ Jews in NYC: Prosecutors

A Pakistani national in Canada plotted to slaughter as many Jewish people as possible before he was charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, federal prosecutors said on Friday. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was arrested this week in Canada, where he planned to travel to New York to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, according to the criminal complaint. Khan boasted that “New york is perfect to target jews” because it has the “largest Jewish population In america” and therefore, “even if we dont attack a[n] Event[,] we could rack up easily a lot of jews.” Khan proclaimed that “we are going to nyc to slaughter them,” and sent a photograph of the specific area inside of a location where he planned to carry out the attack, according to the criminal complaint. A seal for the Department of Justice is seen on a podium ahead of a news conference at the Department of Justice Building, March 21, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images “The defendant is alleged to have planned a terrorist attack in New York City around October 7th of this year with the stated goal of slaughtering, in the name of ISIS, as many Jewish people as possible,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the charges. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-isis-inspired-plot-slaughter-jews-nyc/story?id=113471171