Posted on 05/15/2011 9:43:48 AM PDT by Nachum
One of the terror suspects arrested for allegedly planning to attack New York synagogues dressed as a Hasidic Jew has pleaded his innocence in a tearful interview.
20-year-old Mohamed Mamdouh, who was caught on Tuesday in a dramatic police sting operation, said he ‘had nothing to do with’ the synagogue slaughter plot.
Speaking from prison on Rikers Island, the taxi dispatcher blamed his 27-year-old friend Ahmed Ferhani for talk of the planned killing spree.
‘I was at the wrong place at the wrong time,’ he told a U.S. newspaper. ‘I don't have problems with anyone - not Jews, not anyone.’
Mamdouh was arrested on Wednesday, along with suspected plot ringleader Ahmed Ferhani. They men are charged with terrorism and hate crimes.
Ferhani ‘was the one who was talking about all the weapons and everything else’, Mamdouh told the Daily News.
I never spoke about guns and blowing things up, either.
‘That was him. It was all his idea. I had nothing to do with any of it.’
Mamdouh said he and Ferhani were acquaintances, not real friends, who occasionally hung out and drank.
Ferhani ‘has anger issues’, said Mamdouh, who met his co-defendant in 2009. ‘He gets mad and says things.’
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