- NY Times: Queens Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Blow Up Manhattan Synagogue
- NY Post: Synagogue bomb plotter gets 10 years after pleading guilty
- NY Post Editorial: The NYPD’s lesson for the FBI
- NY Daily News: Queens man pleads guilty to plotting to blow up synagogues
- Wall Street Journal: Guilty Plea in Terror Case
- Times of Israel (AP): NYC synagogue bomb plotter pleads guilty, faces 10-year sentence and deportation
- Manhattan DA Cyrus W. Vance, Jr.:Ahmed Ferhani Pleads Guilty to Terror Charges for 2011 Plot to Blow up Manhattan Synagogues and Churches
- Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly: “My congratulations to District Attorney Vance for successfully prosecuting this important case. He rose to the occasion in making sure Ahmed Ferhani received significant jail time for plotting to kill New Yorkers as they worshiped. In his allocution, Ferhani made clear – as our Intelligence Division detectives documented – that he intended to attack congregants in a Manhattan synagogue with a hand grenade and gunfire, for the purpose of intimidating and coercing the Jewish population of New York City.”
Mayor Bloomberg, DA Cy Vance and Police Commissioner Kelly announce the arrests of two plotting to blow up Manhattan synagogues.