New York Post

Feds bust ‘terrorist’ at JFK

- Priscilla DeGregory

A Manhattan man has been charged with trying to leave the country to join a Pakistani terrorist organizati­on.

Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacio­n, 29, was nabbed Thursday night and arrested at JFK Airport, authoritie­s said. He was charged with conspiring to and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organizati­on.

He appeared in Manhattan federal court Friday, where a judge remanded him.

Encarnacio­n allegedly told an unnamed co-conspirato­r in November that he wanted to hook up with Lashkar e-Tayyiba, the group that carried out the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks that killed 166 people.

“I want to execute. I want to behead. Shoot,” Encarnacio­n told an undercover agent, a Manhattan federal criminal complaint alleges.

The co-conspirato­r connected Encarnacio­n with a recruiter to help him travel to Pakistan and be trained with the group, authoritie­s said. But the recruiter was actually an undercover agent, according to the complaint.

“The terrorist attack. 9/11. I want to be [the] one to attack,” Encarnacio­n allegedly told the agent Nov. 21.

He said he hates America and couldn’t wait to go to Pakistan, the papers said.

“US all infidels. With the king Trump,” he allegedly said Jan. 7.

A lawyer for Encarnacio­n did not return a request for comment.

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