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The Department of Justice has announced the arrest of a former Michigan Army National Guard member who allegedly plotted an ISIS-inspired mass shooting targeting a US military facility in Michigan.
Getting into it: In a release, the DOJ confirmed that Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, a 19-year-old former member of the Michigan Army National Guard, was arrested for allegedly planning a mass shooting at the US Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility in Warren, Michigan. Said’s plot began to unfold in 2024, when he began communicating online with two individuals he believed to be fellow ISIS sympathizers — both of whom were actually undercover law enforcement officers. Over several months, he provided them with armor-piercing ammunition, high-capacity magazines, and conducted drone surveillance over the TACOM facility to map out attack logistics.
Said also trained the agents on firearm handling and how to construct Molotov cocktails for use during the operation. On May 13, 2025 — the day the attack was scheduled to be carried out — Said traveled to a location near the TACOM facility with one of the undercover agents and launched his drone to assist with final reconnaissance. He was immediately taken into custody by federal agents once the drone was airborne.
Evidence gathered by investigators included video footage in which Said pledged allegiance to ISIS and posed in front of an ISIS flag, as well as photos of him piloting a drone near the target site.
In a statement, Sue J. Bai with the DOJ’s National Security Division said, “This defendant is charged with planning a deadly attack on a US military base here at home for ISIS. Thanks to the tireless efforts of law enforcement, we foiled the attack before lives were lost. We will not hesitate to bring the full force of the Department to find and prosecute those who seek to harm our men and women in the military and to protect all Americans.”
Brig. Gen. Rhett R. Cox, the commanding general of the Army Counterintelligence Command, added, “The arrest of this former soldier is a sobering reminder of the importance of our counterintelligence efforts to identify and disrupt those who would seek to harm our nation. I commend the tireless work of our special agents and FBI partners who worked together to investigate and apprehend this individual.”
