Terrorist Wannabees Planned to Blow Up Synagogues, Empire State Building
NEW YORK (AFP) – New York undercover police have arrested two men who bought weapons in an alleged plot to unleash a bloodbath in Manhattan synagogues, city officials said Thursday.
The suspects, Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, both of North African descent, were also alleged to have said they would attack the Empire State Building.
Police “arrested two men who said they wanted to destroy a major synagogue in Manhattan and then purchased several weapons and a grenade from an undercover officer,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the men — one a US citizen and the other a legal resident — were arrested Wednesday immediately after purchasing weapons from an undercover agent.