An 18-year-old freshman at George Mason University in Virginia was arrested Tuesday on charges of plotting a mass-casualty attack on the Israeli Consulate General in New York City, which he described as a “gold of targets,” according to a report. Khan”.
Egyptian national Abdullah Ezeleddine Taha Mohamed Hassan was charged with making explosives with intent to murder internationally protected persons after allegedly instructing an undercover FBI agent in November to target the consulate with explosives. Had gone. Washington Post Reported on Thursday.
“Two options: wreak havoc on them with the assault rifle or detonate the TATP (suicide) vest in their midst,” Hasan allegedly told the agent posing as a terrorist supporter on November 27, prosecutors told the court. It was alleged in the documents received. Shop.
According to the report, Hassan, who was facing deportation proceedings, was arrested by the FBI in Falls Church and later banned from the campus.
FBI documents say the first-year college student has an extensive digital paper trail with social media accounts praising the Islamic State and Osama bin Laden and spreading terrorist and anti-Semitic propaganda.
He allegedly sent an Islamic State propaganda video to the undercover agent in mid-November, calling for the death of Jewish people, the newspaper reported.
The agent then agreed to follow Hassan’s orders to carry out a mass massacre and the teen suggested several weapons and sent bomb-making instructional videos over several days of communications, ultimately with Israel’s headquarters in Manhattan as the target. Landed at the General Consulate.
Hassan reportedly told the FBI informant that the Big Apple would provide “a gold mine of targets” – those targets were Jewish people, whom he referred to as “Jews” in Arabic, according to FBI documents.
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