A federal judge has revoked the citizenship of a convicted terrorist who was involved in a plan to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge in New York back in 2002, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Tuesday.
Iyman Faris, 50, from Pakistan, was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003 for providing and conspiring to provide material support to the al Qaeda terrorist group. This included an instance in 2002 where Faris evaluated the practicality of a plot to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge using gas cutters and communicating his findings to al Qaeda via coded messages, according to the DOJ, meeting with Osama bin Laden in 2000, and researching about ultralight airplanes for senior members of the terrorist group.
