Kash Patel says FBI thwarted alleged ‘terrorist attack’ in Michigan

An alleged “terrorist attack” in the state of Michigan was reportedly halted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States.

Few details about the operation or the suspects were made public. FBI Director Kash Patel promised to provide more details in a social media post from Friday.

He wrote that the FBI “thwarted a potential terrorist attack” and “arrested several people in Michigan who were allegedly planning a violent attack over the weekend of Halloween.”

“Thanks to the men and women of law enforcement and the FBI who are constantly on the lookout for our homeland’s protection.”

Patel did not specify where in Michigan the FBI operation took place. However, the Dearborn police department’s social media profile noted that FBI agents had been involved in the city’s neighborhood on Friday in a separate post.

Whether or not it involved a different operation or a similar one is unknown.

The Dearborn Police Department learned that the FBI had been conducting operations in Dearborn earlier this morning, according to the department. We want to assure our neighbors that the community is safe at this time.

Dearborn, a city in southeast Michigan close to Detroit, is known as the company’s corporate headquarters, and it is the first city in the US with an Arab American majority.

According to a report from the Michigan newspaper The Detroit Free Press, the FBI also operates in Inkster, another Detroit suburb.

The FBI has claimed previously that it has prevented a “terrorist”-related incident in the state during Patel’s tenure.

Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, a 19-year veteran of the Michigan National Guard, was detained on May 14 when the FBI made a statement.

Said claimed in a statement from the US government that he had a plot to carry out a mass shooting at a US army base in Warren, Michigan, in support of ISIL (ISIS).

He allegedly gave the agents weapons, drone training, and operational details for the attack when they offered to help him carry out the plan.

He was detained on May 13 and accused of distributing information about a destructive device and trying to support a foreign terrorist organization.

At the election of US President Donald Trump, Patel took the oath of office on February 21.