Canadian Student Plots Brooklyn Terror Attack

0:00A 21-year-old guy named Muhammad Shahzeb Khan just pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court to plotting a terrorist attack. He was a former international student in Canada, who planned to cross the border and use automatic weapons to kill as many Jewish people as possible at. A Brooklyn Center, all in support of the Islamic State Group. Earlier this year, on September 4, 2024, authorities nabbed him near Ormstown, Canada just 12 miles from the U.S. border. He'd been chatting online with undercover officers about targeting New York for its huge Jewish population, aiming his mass shooting to hit on THE. One year mark of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks. Khan told the judge he got the idea from ISIS calls to attack Jews, motivated by anger over Israel's actions in Gaza. He admitted renting space right next to the Jewish Center and boasting it'd be the biggest U.S. strikes since 9-11. In court, he owned up to how wrong it was, calling his plot a terrible and morally

1:01reprehensible idea, saying he wasn't raised that way, and now. Regrets it all. Officials say he arrived in Canada on a student visa back in June 2023 and had been locked up ever since his arrest. Sentencing set for August 12, where he could get life in prison on the charge of trying to provide material support for terrorism across. Borders. This case shows how close these threats can get to home. That's your update from Vancouver News today, powered by AI.