The FBI thwarted a “potential terrorist attack” in Michigan allegedly plotting an attack over the weekend.
“This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “More details to come. Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland.”
White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka confirmed the development, stating that federal agents “successfully disrupted a Jihadi terror plot in Detroit timed for Halloween when innocent children should be enjoying themselves Trick or Treating.”
“The threat is real,” Gorka noted. “Thank you to our brave FBI agents and the incredible work of the quiet professionals of the Intelligence Community who made today’s arrests possible.”
The Associated Press reports that FBI and state police vehicles were seen in a neighborhood near Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. Agents walked in and out of a house, with one individual collecting materials from an evidence truck.
In May, the Justice Department arrested a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard, Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, after he attempted to carry out a plan to conduct a mass-shooting event at a U.S. military base.
The complaint on the matter says Said “informed two undercover law enforcement officers of a plan he had devised and formulated to conduct a mass-shooting at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan.”
The two undercover officers suggested they were going to carry out the plan, prompting Said to provide material assistance, including “armor-piercing ammunition and magazines for the attack, flying his drone over TACOM to conduct operational reconnaissance, training the undercover employees on firearms and the construction of Molotov cocktails for use during the attack, and planning numerous details of the attack including how to enter TACOM and which building to target.”
