The guy is 20 years old , from Abbottabad KPK .
Living in Canada.
How does he have such deep ties with ISIS and so many resources that he can arrange a gun attack on Jews in New York?
The type of stories they come up with.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan was arrested near U.S. border in 2024, faces life in prison
Thomas Daigle · CBC News · Posted: Apr 08, 2026 6:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: April
A courtroom illustration shows Muhammad Shahzeb Khan in a Montreal courtroom via video link on Dec. 6, 2024. Khan was extradited to the U.S. in 2025. The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday he had pleaded guilty to one count of attempted acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries. (Alexandra Newbould/CBC)
A former ISIS supporter who came to Canada on a study permit and planned a mass shooting targeting Jews in New York City has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge in a U.S. court.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 21-year-old Pakistani citizen, appeared before a federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday — acknowledging publicly for the first time his involvement in the violent plot.
The attack was set to be carried out at a Jewish centre in Brooklyn to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, according to prosecutors.
Khan told U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe — as he pleaded guilty to a single charge of trying to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries — that he was going to cross the border from Canada to the U.S. in September 2024 with "the intention of killing Jewish people in Brooklyn."
He said he was motivated to act in retaliation for Israel's killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
Khan was on his way to New York City with the intention of carrying out a mass shooting at a Jewish centre, on Sept. 4, 2024, when he was arrested by RCMP in Ormstown, Que. (Quebec Superior Court)
Court files show Khan had told an undercover officer his goal was to “slaughter” as many Jews as possible, in what he expected would be the “largest attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.”
Khan is scheduled to be sentenced in August, per a U.S. Department of Justice
news release. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Khan's plea makes it "unequivocally clear" that "terrorism and other hate-based violence have zero place in New York City," Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
According to a U.S. criminal complaint, Khan sent this picture of $20 bills to undercover officers, telling them the money was for the human smuggler who was set to help him cross the U.S. border. (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York)
Smuggler paid for intended crossing
Khan, who had been living in Mississauga, Ont., was arrested by heavily armed RCMP officers on Sept. 4, 2024 in Ormstown, Que., near New York state. According to court documents, Khan had paid a human smuggler for help crossing into the U.S.
Khan, who went by the alias Shahzeb Jadoon, was extradited to the U.S. last June.
CBC News
previously reported it was his social media activity that caught the attention of an FBI informant, less than four months after Khan landed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
Khan later told undercover investigators about his plan to build an ISIS cell and amass an arsenal, including AR-style rifles and hunting knives, to carry out the mass killing in Brooklyn.
By pleading guilty, he avoids a trial that was set to begin next month. Khan had also been indicted by a grand jury on a charge of attempted provision of material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorism organization — the self-styled Islamic State group.
In court documents reviewed by CBC News, U.S. prosecutors only refer to the intended target as “location 1.” Khan described it on an encrypted chat platform as “the ultra orthodox hasidic jews world headquarters.”
According to U.S. prosecutors, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan reposted on Facebook another user's image of a disassembled weapon, alongside "Arabic-language text calling for unity" among Muslims. His social media activity caught the attention of an FBI informant, and later led to a terrorism investigation. (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York)
Khan said he and his associates “would be needing every bullet and magazines" because more than 300 Jews would be on hand. Plus, he said, the ensuing shootout with authorities “could also be long for which we would require ample ammo.”
"I was not raised this way," Khan said in court, adding that what he planned to do was wrong.
Canada found no 'risk indicators'
Khan applied for a Canadian study permit in March 2023. His request was approved the following month, and he came to Ontario in June 2023, according to records presented to MPs at a committee hearing in Ottawa after Khan’s arrest.
A security screening by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada “did not identify any risk indicators,” the report said. Khan’s application was not referred to CSIS and the federal border agency for a more comprehensive security review.
“Let’s not be naive,” then-federal immigration minister Marc Miller said in September 2024.
“A determined individual can gain access to this country and that is for the security services inside our country to apprehend this person if they commit a crime or if they’re about to commit a crime,” he said.
“And that’s exactly what happened.”
