Feds bust ‘terrorist’ at JFK
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.