WARREN, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A 19-year-old Melvindale man who was a member of the Michigan Army National Guard provided undercover law enforcement officers with armor-piercing ammunition and weapons training so they could carry out a mass shooting in the name of ISIS at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility.
Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said is alleged to have planned the attack, including flying a drone over the military base for reconnaissance, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Said was arrested on May 13, the day the attack was scheduled to occur. Said was arrested at an area near the military base and had launched a drone in support of the attack on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which the federal government has said is a foreign terrorist organization.
Said is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device. He faces 20 years in prison.
“ISIS is a brutal terrorist organization which seeks to kill Americans. Helping ISIS or any other terrorist organization prepare or carry out acts of violence is not only a reprehensible crime – it is a threat to our entire nation and way of life,” said U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a press release. “Our office will not tolerate such crimes or threats, and we will use the full weight of the law against anyone who engages in terrorism.”
Said is alleged to have contacted the two undercover agents with his plan and then provide them with details such as how to enter the military base and what building to target, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Said also made Molotov cocktails to use during the attack.