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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/michigan-national-guard-isis-attack.html
Pro-ISIS Man Planned to Attack U.S. Army Base in Michigan
(New York Times) Neil Vigdor - Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, was arrested outside the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command in Warren, Mich., where he had launched a drone for purposes of aerial surveillance after planning to carry out an attack on the military base outside Detroit for the Islamic State, the FBI said Tuesday. Said had unknowingly discussed his plans with federal agents since last June. He said he was "fed up with this country" and had long desired to engage in a violent jihad, either by traveling to an ISIS-held territory abroad or carrying out an attack in the U.S. Brig.-Gen. Rhett R. Cox, head of the Army Counterintelligence Command, said Wednesday that Said's arrest was a "sobering reminder" of the importance of counterintelligence efforts.