[IsraelTimes] A Pak man was arrested in Canada this week for plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal authorities announce.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland says Muhammad Shahzeb Khan had attempted to travel from Canada, where he lives, to New York City with the "stated goal of slaughtering, in the name of ISIS, as many Jewish people as possible."
The 20 year-old, who is also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was apprehended on Sept. 4 and charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to the terror group, which stands for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and al-Sham.
"As I said to Canada’s Minister of Public Safety yesterday, we are deeply grateful to our Canadian partners for their critical law enforcement actions in this matter," Garland says in a statement. "Jewish communities — like all communities in this country — should not have to fear that they will be targeted by a hate-fueled terrorist attack."
US authorities said Khan began sharing ISIS propaganda videos and expressing his support for the terror group in social media posts and communications with others on an encrypted messaging app last November.
In conversations with two undercover law enforcement officers,
| …the usual FBI informant/jihadi best friends, or Canadian Mounties ditto? Inquiring minds want to know… |
he confirmed that he and another ISIS supporter based in the US had been planning to carry out attacks against Jewish centers in America and needed to obtain AR-style assault rifles, ammunition and other materials, according to the Justice Department.
Khan also provided details about how he would cross the border from Canada into the US and that he was considering conducting the attacks on either the Oct. 7 anniversary or on Oct. 11, which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, authorities say.
| I need to put that on my calendar — what with all that life stuff happening, I kind of lost track… |
Then on Aug. 20, he told the undercover officers that he had settled on targeting New York City because of its sizable Jewish population and sent a photograph of the specific area inside of a Jewish center where he planned to carry out the attack, according to the Justice Department.
Using three separate vehicles, Khan began travelling to the US but was stopped around Ormstown, a town in the Canadian province of Quebec that is about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the US border, federal authorities say. 
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