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Pakistani National Charged for Plotting Mass Shooting at Jewish Center in New York City
(U.S. Department of Justice) A Pakistani citizen residing in Canada, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was arrested on Sept. 4 in Canada for planning "a terrorist attack in New York City around Oct. 7 of this year with the stated goal of slaughtering, in the name of ISIS, as many Jewish people as possible," U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said Friday. "Thanks to the investigative work of the FBI, and the quick action of our Canadian law enforcement partners, the defendant was taken into custody." Khan attempted to travel from Canada to New York City, where he intended to use automatic and semi-automatic weapons to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn.