The following is from the NY Daily News:
Two men arrested on terrorism charges were plotting to attack Manhattan synagogues with grenades and assault rifles, sources said Thursday.
The alleged mastermind is a Moroccan Muslim born in Queens who has prior arrests for drugs.
He had enlisted a pal and planned to sell drugs in order to finance the purchase of weapons, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.
No specific synagogue had been targeted, and the plot was still in its early planning stages when detected by investigators with the help of an informant, the sources said.
Both men were caught on wiretaps discussing the plot, according to sources, who said the chilling plan had been hatched several months ago and appears to have pre-dated the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Neither man has any known ties to terror organizations and no other arrests are imminent, the sources said.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is expected to hold a press conference later Thursday to detail the arrests.
In an unusual move, investigators with the Joint Terrorism Task Force had declined to prosecute the case, saying the plan was more aspirational than operational, sources said.
The district attorney’s office then picked up the case and is expected to charge the men under a state anti-terrorism law.
The charges come more than a year after an Al Qaeda-trained terrorist failed in his attempt to bomb Times Square on May 1, 2010.
(Source: NY Daily News)
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I’ve been saying for years, EVERY shul, and certainly every large shul should have at least one or two (legally) ARMED guards (could be shul members)AT LEAST on Shabbas and Yomim Tovim.
This time these guys were caught, next time we may not be so lucky.
Aizeh hu chacham? Ha’ro’eh es ha’nolad!!!