LILLEY: Cops say Pakistani man in Toronto plotted to kill Jews in New York City
The conversations Muhammad Shahzeb Khan had with American undercover agents are chilling.
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A 20-year-old man from Pakistan, living in Toronto, was arrested near Montreal this week on charges of plotting to shoot up a Jewish centre in Brooklyn. This is what the people cheering on Hamas mean when they chant “globalize the intifada” on the streets of Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested Wednesday in the small Quebec town of Ormstown, about 60 kilometres south of Montreal and about 25 kilometres from the border crossing at Covey Hill.
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American officials announced the arrest on Thursday saying that Khan faces one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. In Canada, the RCMP announced that he faces charges of attempting to leave Canada to commit an offence for a terrorist group and participating in the activities of a terrorist group.
His plan was to carry out the attack in the name of the Islamic State, or ISIS.
In conversations with undercover law enforcement released by the Americans, Khan said he wanted to launch an attack in New York on Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, or Oct. 11, the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. In several messages, Khan was clear in why he was choosing Brooklyn as the site for his attack.
“New york is perfect to target jews,” Khan wrote to the undercover officers because the city has the “largest Jewish population In america.”
He also said that the attack “could rack up easily a lot of jews” and that “we are going to nyc to slaughter them.”
“if we[’]re successful this is going to be one of the largest attacks ever on jews outside of the israeli territory in recent times,” he said in another message.
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Read those messages from a Pakistani man living in Canada. It’s not about Israel, it’s about Jews, it’s about unbridled hatred of Jews, it is about killing people just for who they are.
Welcome to the globalized intifada.
It was just five weeks ago that two men, a father and son, were arrested north of Toronto and charged with plotting to carry out an ISIS attack in Toronto aimed at that city’s Jewish community. In that case, the father, Ahmed Eldidi was allowed into Canada and gained citizenship just weeks before his arrest despite allegedly being the star of a 2015 ISIS torture video posted online.
Khan noted those arrests in his communications with the undercover officers saying, “they foiled a[n] ISIS attack here in toronto yesterday.”
He recommended they lay low and stay off social media for a little bit but that didn’t last long. Days later he was contacting the agents asking for details on the types of firearms they had acquired so he could practice shooting in Canada.
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Seems he believed that practice made perfect when it comes to trying to kill as many Jews as possible.
Khan moved out of his Toronto apartment this past Sunday and left for his trip to New York City on Wednesday, changing cars in Napanee and Montreal, authorities said. Just before 3 p.m., Khan and a woman travelling with him were stopped in Ormstown and the arrest proceeded.
Local Quebec police were assisted by Ontario police and the RCMP in carrying out the arrest. Khan is due in court in Montreal on Sept. 13.
What we don’t know about Khan is his immigration status. We know that he is not a Canadian citizen but it’s not clear if he came to Canada as a permanent resident, as a temporary foreign worker or on a student visa.
What is clear is that this man who wants to globalize the intifada isn’t the type of person we should want in Canada. Unfortunately, there are many more like him here already, including many who were born and raised here, many who are not Muslim but like Khan simply hate Jews.
We have deep and growing problems in this country.
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