Michigan man arrested for alleged plot to conduct mass shooting at Army base

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN

(CNN) — A former member of the Michigan Army National Guard has been arrested after he allegedly tried to carry out a plan to conduct a mass shooting at a US military base in Michigan on behalf of the ISIS terrorist organization, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, was arrested on Tuesday, which authorities say was the scheduled day of the attack, after he visited an area near the military base and launched a drone in support of the attack plan, according to the Justice Department.

Said allegedly planned to attack the Army’s Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, which is located in a Detroit suburb and manages the Army’s supply chain for tanks. According to federal prosecutors, Said offered to help undercover law enforcement officers carry out the attack by training them to use firearms and make Molotov cocktails and by providing armor-piercing ammunitions and magazines for the attack.

Said, has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device. Court documents did not list an attorney for Said.

Said spent two years in the Michigan Army National Guard until he was discharged in December, according to court documents.

Said “was involuntarily discharged for failing to complete initial entry requirements,” a Michigan National Guard spokesperson told CNN in an email.

“The Michigan National Guard is an organization built on a foundation of trust, integrity and accountability,” the statement said. “We hold all members to the highest professional standards, and when those standards are not met, we act in accordance with the law and our internal policies.”

“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,” Brig. Gen. Rhett Cox, the commanding general of Army Counterintelligence Command, said in a statement.

ISIS, or the Islamic State, once controlled large swathes of Iraq and Syria. In the more than 10 years since it emerged, people claiming allegation to ISIS or its affiliates in Asia and Africa have conducted numerous terror attacks in cities across the world. Though military strikes from the US and its allies have weakened the terror group, it has proved resilient.

An ISIS flag was found in the truck of an Army veteran who carried out a terror attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people. And the arrest of eight people who crossed into the US from Mexico and — whom US officials believe have connections to ISIS — heightened concerns about a terror threat to the homeland.

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