2011 Manhattan terrorism plot: Difference between revisions

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==Plot==

On May 12, 2011, New York City law enforcement officials announced that two suspects, Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, had been arrested for trying to purchase weapons, including three pistols and hand grenades, as part of a terror plot to attack an unspecified Manhattan synagogue. [[New York City Mayor]] [[Michael Bloomberg]] said both suspects wanted to attack a "major synagogue".<ref name="abc">{{cite news |title=Two Arrested in New York City Synagogue Attack Plot Sting |author1=Richard Esposito |author2=Mark Crudele |author3=Aaron Katersky |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/arrested-york-city-synagogue-attack-plot-sting/story?id=13586174 |newspaper=ABC News |date=May 12, 2011 |accessdate=May 14, 2011}}</ref> Mr. Ferhani is to also have expressed an interest in blowing up a church in Queens and the Empire State Building. Prior to their arrest, the two men had already obtained some guns.<ref name="wsj"/> Ferhani allegedly was trying to sell drugs to fund the attacks.<ref>{{cite news |title=Al Qaeda's hardmen: New York terror suspect is wannabe model who worked as MAKE-UP salesman at Saks (and his co-conspirator has a record for kicking a poodle) |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386221/Terror-suspect-Ahmed-Ferhani-worked-Saks-Fifth-Ave-salesman.html |newspaper=Daily Mail |date=May 13, 2011 |accessdate=May 14, 2011}}</ref>{{deprecated inline|certain=yes|date=October 2019cn}}

According to law enforcement officials, this was the thirteenth plot thwarted against the city since the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name="abc"/>