Two men have been charged in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist plot planned in Michigan, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba said Wednesday.
Habba said in one video on social platform
Four other men have been arrested in connection with the plot: three from Michigan and one from New Jersey.
According to one criminal complaint Unlocked Monday, two of the Michigan men explored LGBTQ-friendly bars in Ferndale, Michigan, outside Detroit. The complaint also alleges that the men planned the attack in person and via WhatsApp, an encrypted communications platform.
An attorney for one of the men arrested in Michigan told the Associated Press on Saturday that the men weren’t planning to a terrorist attack, and that he does not “know where all this hysteria and fear-mongering came from.”
Habba said the men charged Wednesday used encrypted messaging platforms to plan trips to Turkey and Syria from October 2024 through Tuesday. The two allegedly discussed joining ISIS, “detailed” travel plans, physical training methods, firearms and improvised explosive devices and ways to avoid detection by law enforcement, she said.
Both pledged themselves to ISIS and plotted terror attacks in the U.S., Habba said.
On Wednesday, one man appeared in federal court in New Jersey, while the other appeared in federal court in the Western District of Washington.
FBI Director Kash Patel said on
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