Daesh-inspired terrorists planning to attack targets in New York City have been arrested with the help of an undercover agent.
US justice authorities revealed on Friday that FBI agents had stopped three Daesh sympathizers from carrying out coordinated attacks on New York concert venues, subway stations and Times Square last year.
“The planned attacks … included the detonation of explosive devices in Times Square and the New York City subway system,” according to a statement by the Department of Justice.
One man in the US and two others in Pakistan and the Philippines are under arrest and face charges of plotting the attacks which they wanted to carry out in the name of the Daesh Takfiri group.
Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 19, a Canadian citizen detained in New York; Talha Haroon, also 19, a US citizen based in Pakistan and Russell Salic, 37, from the Philippines.
El Bahnasawy, who was arrested in May 2016, pleaded guilty last October…