A former ISIS supporter who entered Canada on a study permit and had plans to use automatic weapons to kill Jewish people in New York City has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge in a U.S. courtroom.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 21-year-old Pakistani national who had been living in Ontario, appeared before a federal judge in Manhattan this week where he publicly admitted for the first time his participation in a plot to attack a Jewish centre in 2024.
Khan was arrested in Ormstown, Que., near the U.S. border on Sept. 4, 2024, by the RCMP. Police said at the time that he was thought to be making his way across the border into New York state to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish centre in Brooklyn….