A Jordanian national living in Houston was arrested recently for unlawful possession of a firearm.
FBI director: Man arrested in Houston supports killing Jews and studied how to build bombs; FBI agents arrested Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, earlier this month. @MattKHOU https://t.co/LKevLZUwS6
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) October 31, 2023
Now, new accusations allege the 20-year-old trained with others with a “radical mindset” to “possibly commit an attack.”
From Fox News:
“We’ve already seen that with the individual we arrested last week in Houston who had been studying how to build bombs and posted online his support for killing Jews,” FBI Director Chris Wray said during a congressional hearing this week.
The man he was referring to is 20-year-old Sohaib Abuayyash, FOX 26 confirmed from an FBI source. The FBI referred Fox News Digital to the publicly filed court documents, which show Abuayyash was in the country illegally.
❖ BREAKING: The FBI arrested 20-year-old Jordanian Sohaib Abuayyash on charges of plotting a horrific attack on a Jewish gathering in Houston.
The unsettling revelation comes amidst a noticeable spike in anti-Semitism post-Hamas’s attack on Israel.
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— Hank (@GCapital_LLC) November 3, 2023
Court documents obtained