A Pakistani citizen has been arrested in Quebec as he was allegedly preparing an ISIS terrorist attack targeting Jews in New York City.
The attack was to take place on Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 in Israel, according to U.S. authorities.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was arrested on Wednesday but neither Canadian nor U.S. police would confirm it until Friday.
Khan intended to carry out a mass shooting in support of ISIS at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, N.Y., the U.S. alleged in an indictment.
According to witness reports on social media, the arrest occurred on in Ormstown, Que., a 20-minute drive from the U.S. border.
One witness wrote on Twitter that an RCMP tactical team used a stun grenade to arrest a man in a minivan with Ontario licence plates.
This would not be the first time a foreign terror suspect has attempted to cross the border to carry out a terrorist attack in the United States.
A failed refugee claimant living in Montreal, Ahmed Ressam, was caught at the British Columbia-Washington State border in December 2019
An Algerian trained in Afghanistan, Ressam was on his way to bomb Los Angeles International Airport when U.S. border officials arrested him.
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