A Pakistani man wanted by the FBI will be extradited to New York from Canada to face trial on terrorism charges.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, is accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at a Brooklyn Jewish center on Oct. 7. The Justice Department did not disclose the exact location he was targeting.
At an extradition hearing in Montreal Thursday, the young man also known as “Shahzeb Jadoon,” agreed not to fight his handover to US federal authorities.
Khan entered Canada on a student visa in May 2023, though it’s unclear whether he actually attended school at all. By November 2023, he was already on the FBI’s radar for allegedly expressing sympathy for the radical Islamic group ISIS, on his social media, according to the federal complaint.
An FBI investigation uncovered Khan’s alleged plan to form a group of co-conspirators and kill “as many Jewish people as possible” in the name of ISIS, on Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.
Khan hoped the massacre would go down in history as “the largest US attack since 9/11,” according to the criminal complaint filed in 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 before his planned attack — — with a pocketful of cash the FBI says was intended to pay a smuggler to get him across the Canada-US border.
If convicted, Khan faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
