A Pakistani man needed by the FBI shall be extradited to New York from Canada to face trial on terrorism expenses.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, is accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass capturing at a Brooklyn Jewish middle on Oct. 7. The Justice Division didn’t disclose the precise location he was concentrating on.
At an extradition listening to in Montreal Thursday, the younger man often known as “Shahzeb Jadoon,” agreed to not struggle his handover to US federal authorities.
Khan entered Canada on a scholar visa in Could 2023, although it’s unclear whether or not he truly attended college in any respect. By November 2023, he was already on the FBI’s radar for allegedly expressing sympathy for the unconventional Islamic group ISIS, on his social media, in line with the federal criticism.
An FBI investigation uncovered Khan’s alleged plan to kind a bunch of co-conspirators and kill “as many Jewish people as possible” within the title of ISIS, on Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas assault on Israel.
Khan hoped the bloodbath would go down in historical past as “the largest US attack since 9/11,” in line with the legal criticism filed within the Southern District of New York.
“Brothers . . . we are going to NYC to slaughter them Inshalah,” Khan allegedly wrote on encrypted messaging apps. “Inshalah” is Arabic for “if God wills it.”
Khan was apprehended 12 miles from the US border on Sept. 4 — one month earlier than his deliberate assault — — with a pocketful of money the FBI says was supposed to pay a smuggler to get him throughout the Canada-US border.
If convicted, Khan faces a most sentence of 20 years in jail.
