May 14 (UPI) -- A former member of Michigan's Army National Guard has been charged with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired mass attack Tuesday on a U.S. Army facility near Detroit, though it was thwarted, according to court records released Wednesday.
The Justice Department said Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, was arrested Tuesday. He is facing charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and distributing information related to a destructive device at the Detroit Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, or TACOM, in Warren. It is known as the Detroit Arsenal,
TACOM's headquarters manages U.S. Army's ground and support systems enterprise and the Army's related industrial base capabilities. It was the first manufacturing plant for mass production of tanks in the United States in 1941.
In April, he communicated with two people "purporting to be fellow ISIS supporters but instead they were undercover law enforcement officers, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday.
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