Overview
- Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al‑Saadi, an Iraqi national, was arrested in New York and charged in Manhattan federal court, with prosecutors unsealing the complaint Friday.
- The complaint alleges he planned and claimed at least 18 attacks in Europe and two in Canada, including a bank firebomb in Amsterdam, an attempted explosive at a Paris bank, and stabbings in London.
- Prosecutors say he targeted Jewish institutions in the United States by sending an undercover officer maps and photos for sites in Los Angeles and Scottsdale and by pledging thousands of dollars for a New York synagogue attack.
- Al‑Saadi is accused of supporting Kata'ib Hizballah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, both designated terrorist groups, and he faces charges that include conspiring to bomb a public place.
- Investigators also link him to a synagogue attack and a March shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, and they note the claims come from a newly unsealed complaint that remains to be tested in court.