Michigan men Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud were arrested Friday along with a group of other young Arabs that planned to carry out a mass terror attack in Detroit on Halloween.
Here's the U.S. attorney general:
According to unsealed DOJ documents, these men had assembled a cache of weapons to carry out their attack. The men were inspired by former Michigan Guardsmen Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, who was arrested in May for plotting an attack on the U.S. Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command facility at the Detroit Arsenal.
From FBI Special Agent Nicholas Czech:
In August and September 2025, at around the same time as the third-party discussions referencing an attack to be carried out by Person 1 and ALI, ALI purchased a shotgun, an AR-15 style rifle, and multiple firearm accessories, including a forced reset trigger that allows a shooter to increase the rate of fire in a semiautomatic weapon. MAHMOUD also purchased an AR-15 style rifle in September 2025, as 2 well as multiple firearms accessories. Then in October 2025, MAHMOUD purchased over 1,600 rounds of ammunition that could be used in the AR-15 style rifles he and ALI had purchased.
Mahmoud and Ali are both U.S. citizens, so they are able to buy guns and ammo just like any American.
They were joined by three other individuals that are not named in the FBI statement.
In September and October 2025, Person 1, ALI, MAHMOUD, Coconspirator 4, and Co-conspirator 5, practiced shooting firearms at gun ranges. Based on my investigative experience, I believe this was to develop their firearms skills in furtherance of an attack. On September 25, 2025, ALI and Co-conspirator 4 practiced shooting at a gun range together, and ALI and Co-conspirator 4 each brought an AR-15 style rifle to the range. ALI and MAHMOUD separately practiced shooting together at a gun range on October 8, 2025.
Then ALI, MAHMOUD, and Co-conspirator 4 practiced shooting together on October 16, 2025, and Person 1 practiced shooting at a different gun range on October 17, 2025. Most recently, on October 24, 2025, Person 1, ALI, and Coconspirator 5 practiced shooting together at a gun range, arriving at the range with an AR-15 style rifle.
This wasn't happening in the Middle East or Central Asia. This was happening in Detroit at American gun ranges frequented by Michigan gun owners.
In other words, they were using our own infrastructure to train to kill us.
One of these individuals, named "Co-conspirator 1," stayed with Ali, then traveled overseas on the weekend of July 4th and returned a month later on August 20th. Co-conspirator 1 tried to chat securely while overseas, but ended up being recorded during a conversation with an FBI asset on July 27th.
During the group call, the participants discussed traveling overseas to join Co-conspirator 1 and then later traveling together to Syria to join ISIS. At one point in the conversation, one participant ('Co-conspirator 2') stated that he tried to convince 'Athari' and 'Bukhari' to join their travel, but Athari and Bukhari said they were going to stay back and do the 'same thing as France.'
"Athari" was a codename for a minor arrested alongside Mahmoud and Ali, and "Bukhari" was a codename for Ali.
By the "same thing as France," Co-conspirator 1 was referring to the November 13, 2015 ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris. He meant that Mahmoud, Ali, et. al. would be launching a domestic terror strike from within the United States.
On September 22nd, after returning to the States, Co-conspirator 1 was recorded in another call discussing the upcoming attack.
During the call, Co-conspirator 1 was asked if another member of the group was going to travel with them to Turkey. Coconspirator 1 replied that the other member planned to travel, but 'has to deal with something first.' Co-conspirator 1 then added, 'It's just getting a bit risky for him because ... I don't want to say anything on this call but ... There's going to be brothers doing something else while we go ... Like a nice surprise. That's all I'm going to say ... So once that happens ... the, the moment that happens, and if I'm still here then, thing are gonna ... Basically yeah. So like a lot of stuff is going to be happening...'
"Stuff is going to be happening" = Killing Americans.
Sound familiar?
Back to the FBI document:
According to records provided by the Westland Police Department, ALI has applied for at least four licenses to purchase ('LTP') firearm purchasing permits since July 14, 2025. Two permits were submitted to the Westland Police Department and two were submitted to the Dearborn Police Department. All four were approved and are still available for use (have not been returned).
Again, men named Ali who profess love for ISIS are able to buy guns in America because our government has deemed that they can automatically be U.S. citizens if they are born on U.S. soil.
Several of these men wanted to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to fight and die in the way of jihad (the only method of death that assures Muslim the guarantee of heaven). Others wanted to train here and kill Americans.
Not only were they able to legally buy guns and train with them, but because they were planning on dying in a blaze of glory, they could afford Gucci swag that many Americans cannot.
Data from an email account used by ALI obtained pursuant to a federal search warrant show a screenshot stored on ALI's iCloud account dated September 9, 2025. The screenshot displayed a $510 financial transaction for the 'purchase of EOTech EXPS2 holographic sight and Unity FAST Mount (2.26" height).' The buyer associated with the purchase was listed as 'Mohmed Ali' (ALI).
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Additionally, another picture found in the iCloud returns for ALI's account revealed a Daniel Defense M4 V7 ('DDM4') rifle laying on what appears to be a bed. The rifle in the picture appears to be equipped with an EOTech sight, a grip, and a flashlight and/or laser.
Daniel Defense is a premium American arms manufacturer in Black Creek, Georgia, that makes top-end rifles and handguns. Their DDM4 rifle starts at $2,000.
The FBI says both Ali and Mahmoud also bought a rifle from Palmetto State Armory, founded with the explicit goal of arming Americans as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Other purchases involved Primary Arms and Brownells, both heavily advertised in the firearms and GunTuber world.
A representative from Primary Arms, a retailer in the firearms industry, confirmed purchases made on September 13, 2025, for a 'BCM Gunfighter Vertical Grip Mod 3 - M-LOK - Black,' a 'SureFire ProComp Muzzle Break,' and a 'Geissele Automatics Super Dynamic 3-Gun AR-15 Trigger - BLEMULA,'' for a total of $467.05. ALI was listed as the billing name for these purchases.
A representative from Brownells Inc. confirmed that ALI purchased two items in or around September 15, 2025: a DT-PR Collapsible Mil-Spec Carbine Stock for AR-15 FDE and a MOE K2+® GRIP FOR AR15/M4.
According to the Brownells website, a DT-PR 'has a contoured butt-pad for improved shoulder purchase and minimal contact with the collar bone, allowing shooters to maintain comfort during heads-up and heads-down shooting with various optics,' and a MOE K2+ Grip 'combines reinforced polymer body construction with comfortable, wrap-around rubber overmolding for maximum weapon control in adverse environments.'
Using American companies to buy weapons to kill Americans in the name of Islam.
Mahmoud bought 1,680 rounds of 5.56 caliber ammunition in early October, which the FBI believes was going to be used in the attack.
The collaborators routinely talked about "doing pumpkin" in reference to the upcoming attack, along with other words like "wedding" and "cake" to refer to their plans.
One potential target was the gay nightclub scene in Ferndale, Michigan, a suburb north of Detroit.
Federal agents executed a search warrant on the morning of Halloween, stopping the Islamic mass shooting just hours before it was planned.
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