He had been living in Canada prior to being arrested Wednesday in Ormstown, Que., as he was close to crossing the Canada-U.S border, the statement said.
Hamas fighters killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 200 during the attack.
“Khan recognized [Oct. 7] as the one-year anniversary of the brutal terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas,” reads the complaint.
In a statement released Friday, the RCMP said that Mr. Khan “was allegedly planning to commit a deadly attack against Jewish citizens in the United States.”.
The criminal complaint says that Mr. Khan allegedly told others that “New York is perfect to target Jews” because it has the “largest Jewish population in America.”
“They foiled an ISIS attack here in toronto yesterday,” he said in an Aug. 1 message about the arrest of the two men.
He urged an undercover officer, who he believed was a co-conspirator, that they should “lay low, no social media – nothin.”. »
