A Pakistani national of Ontario sought in the United States for terrorism accusations for having allegedly targeted Jewish institutions in New York has agreed to be extradited.
During a brief audience of the Superior Court today in MontrealMuhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, agreed to be sent to the United States to be tried.
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Khan has been imprisoned since his arrest on September 4 in Ormstown, Quebec, at the request of the American authorities.
US officials have charged Khan from a charge to try to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization.
The authorities allege that Khan, before his arrest, was on the way to make a mass shooting in a Jewish center in Brooklyn around October 7 to mark the one -year anniversary of the Hamas attack against Israel.
The Ontario of the RCMP division, which investigated Khan, said that the accused would be extradited in the coming weeks.
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