The Pakistani man the FBI wanted is handed over from Canada to New York to face trial over a terrorist accusation.
Muhammad Shazeb Khan, 20, has been accused of planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at Brooklyn's Jewish Centre on October 7th. The Justice Department did not reveal the exact location he was targeting.
During an extradition hearing in Montreal on Thursday, the young man, also known as “Shazeb Jadoon,” agreed not to fight extradition to U.S. federal authorities.
Khan took on a student visa in May 2023, but it is unclear whether he actually attended school. By November 2023, he was already on the FBI radar, and is said to have expressed sympathy on the radical Islamic group ISIS and social media. According to federal complaints.
An investigation by the FBI reveals that Khan formed a group of conspirators and suspects of killing “as many Jews as possible” under the name of ISIS on October 7th, the first anniversary of Hamas' attacks on Israel. I did.
According to criminal charges filed in the Southern District of New York, Kern hoped the massacre would dip in history as “the largest attack in the United States since 9/11.”
“Brother. … Khan is said to have written on an encrypted messaging app. “Inshalah” is Arabic, “if God will do that.”
Khan was arrested from 12 miles of the attack 12 miles from the US border on September 4th – a month before his planned attack – the FBI smuggled to cross the Canadian-US border He says he intended to pay the dealer.
If convicted, Khan faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
