East Elmhurst ISIS supporter gets nearly a decade in prison for plotting mass terror attack in Queens: Feds – QNS

Man Sentenced for Attempting to Aid ISIS

Awais Chudhary, a 25-year-old from Queens, N.Y., was sentenced to nine years in prison and 15 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, for planning a knife attack on civilians. In 2019, Chudhary pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, planned a knife or bomb attack targeting pedestrian bridges over the Grand Central Parkway an…

East Elmhurst ISIS supporter gets nearly a decade in prison for plotting mass terror attack in Queens: Feds – QNS

An East Elmhurst man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for plotting to commit a mass knife attack on civilians at the World’s Fair Marina in Corona with a knife to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in 2019. Awais Chudhary, 25, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2022 in Brooklyn federal court. “Awais Chudhary pledg…