accused<\/a> of plotting to target a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 in support of ISIS, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on April 8, the U.S. Justice Department said.<\/p>\nThe terrorist, who also goes by Shahzeb Jadoon, admitted that he tried to carry out a terror attack across national borders \u201cfor attempting to enter the United States and carry out a mass shooting with automatic weapons at a prominent Jewish center in Brooklyn, N.Y.,\u201d the department said. It added that he is slated to be sentenced on Aug. 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cKhan planned a mass shooting at a Jewish center in New York City, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, with the explicit goal of killing as many Jews as possible,\u201d stated John Eisenberg, assistant U.S. attorney general for national security. <\/p>\n
\u201cKhan declared that New York City was the \u2018perfect\u2019 venue for his attack because of its large Jewish population and boasted that his plot could be the largest attack on U.S. soil since 9\/11,\u201d he said. \u201cThe national security division will work tirelessly to ensure that terrorists like Khan face the full weight of American law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khan said that he wanted to target Chabad centers. The Chabad world headquarters is in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Police Department, stated that the NYPD, \u201cin close coordination with our federal partners, was able to stop this dangerous plot before it could become a devastating attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case is yet another example of the sophisticated work that the NYPD does to protect our communities from harm and our ongoing commitment to stop hate-fueled violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( Apr. 10, 2026 \/ JNS ) Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a Pakistani national living in Canada who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-191789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}