/ TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Dec 04, 2025, 08:35 IST
A University of Delaware student, Luqmaan Khan, was arrested with a cache of weapons, body armor, and a manifesto detailing plans for a mass shooting and seeking "martyrdom." Police found the arsenal in his truck and later at his home, including an illegal automatic weapon. Khan allegedly expressed a desire to become a martyr.
A Pakistan-origin man studying at the University of Delaware was arrested after police discovered a large collection of guns, ammunition and body armour, along with a manifesto that allegedly described plans to "kill all" and seek "martyrdom" in a mass shooting on the University campus, The New York Post reported.Police arrested 25-year-old Luqmaan Khan just before midnight on November 24. Officers found him sitting in his pickup truck in a park after closing hours, and decided to search the vehicle because he was acting suspiciously.
Inside the truck, officers allegedly found a .357 Glock pistol, several loaded 27-round magazines, body-armor plates, binoculars, a laptop and a marble composition notebook. Prosecutors said the pistol had been placed into a kit that turned it into a semi-automatic rifle.The police also recovered a notebook reportedly describing a plan to attack his former school’s campus police department, including a drawn-out map of the police headquarters with marked entry and exit points. The plan included evading law enforcement team after attack.ABC 6 reported that the writings included phrases like “kill all – martyrdom,” explained how to escape after the attack, and described how several weapons would be used.
Police said the notes clearly showed “premeditated assault plans” and “warfare techniques.”The exact reason for the planned attack is still unknown, but Khan allegedly told police after his arrest that becoming a martyr was “one of the greatest things you can do.”
“This case is a quintessential example of federal and state law enforcement collaborating to neutralize a grave threat to Delaware before the worst could come to pass. I want to thank our dedicated law enforcement partners at the FBI and the NCCPD for their exceptional work. As always, we are proud to work with them to keep Delaware safe,” said Acting US Attorney Murray. One campus police officer was specifically mentioned in the notes, but the reason is not yet known.
Who is Luqmaan Khan?
Police told The Post that Khan was born in Pakistan but has lived in the United States since he was a “youth,” and he is now an American citizen.After his arrest, the FBI searched his home in Wilmington and found even more weapons. Agents recovered an AR-style rifle with a red-dot scope and another Glock pistol, which had an illegal device that turned it into a fully automatic machine gun capable of firing 1,200 rounds per minute.Khan was taken to the New Castle County Police Headquarters and charged with resisting arrest, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, multiple weapon violations and related offenses. He was arraigned, given a $107,200 cash bail, and then handed over to the FBI, which may file additional charges.
PJ Media’s Robert Spenser has noted the significant omission of key details by our own mainstream media:
….[Y]ou’re unlikely to hear much about this incident from the establishment media, for the perpetrator was not, to the inconsolable disappointment of leftist “journalists” and policymakers everywhere, one of those “right-wing extremists” that the Biden regime couldn’t stop warning us about. Instead, his name is Luqmaan Khan, and he appears to be intent on proving President Donald Trump correct when he said: “Our country's at a tipping point. We could go bad. We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country."
…. In the handful of establishment media stories that bothered to cover the arrest of Luqmaan Khan at all, most make no mention at all regarding Khan’s immigration status. Only WHYY, which operates in Philadelphia and its environs, including Delaware, bothers to note that Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. In other words, he is another indication that Trump, for all the abuse he is getting for terming some migrants “garbage,” was entirely correct.
… Only the WHYY report provides any indication of Khan’s motive. It points out that Khan’s notebook “included the phrase ‘battle efficiency: kill all – martyrdom.’ Martyrdom is discussed repeatedly in his writings.” Also, “during an interview with Khan, police say he told them becoming a martyr was ‘one of the greatest things you can do’ and was one of his goals.”
I did scour the internet yesterday when I wrote the first draft of this post, and found that Spenser was essentially correct: major media has deemed the nationality and motives of this terrorist too potentially upsetting for its consumers.
Late yesterday afternoon the NYPost finally caught up with the story:
Otherwise, our national press prefers that the full story remain buried. Quelle surprise.
