Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, praised the authorities who stopped a Melvindale man’s plan to carry out a terrorist attack at a Michigan military facility.
Authorities said Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, was plotting an attack on Warren’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM), a garrison United States Army base, on behalf of ISIS. Said was arrested Tuesday after undercover investigators discovered details about the plan, which he was allegedly set to carry out that same day.
“Our agents, intelligence teams, and partners acted quickly — and they saved lives,” Patel wrote on X. “Well done to all on executing the mission.”
The backstory: Said, a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard, was busted after he allegedly provided armor-piercing ammo to the undercover agents, believing they would assist in carrying out a mass shooting at the facility.