‘Iyman Faris is a traitor’: Citizenship stripped from convicted al Qaeda terrorist who plotted Brooklyn Bridge attack

Published February 5, 2020 4:12pm ET



A federal judge stripped U.S. citizenship from Iyman Faris, an al Qaeda terrorist linked to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and who’d plotted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

Faris, 50, a Pakistani-born naturalized citizen, was sentenced in 2003 for supporting terrorism. This included a post-9/11 plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge using gas cutters; passing coded messages about the plot to al Qaeda; meeting with Osama bin Laden pre-9/11; doing research on ultralight planes for al Qaeda; and arranging for airline tickets for terrorists.

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