Document: Akayed Ullah Complaint

Matthew Kahn
Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 4:12 PM

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday's attempted suicide attack in New York, on five counts. They are:

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The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday's attempted suicide attack in New York, on five counts. They are:

  1. One count of providing material supoprt and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization
  2. One count of using of weapons of mass destruction
  3. One count of bombing a place of public use
  4. One count of destruction of property by means of fire or explosive
  5. One count of using a destructive device during and in furtherance of a crime of violence

The full criminal complaint is below.


Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.

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