The FBI stopped an ISIS-linked terror plot set for Ferndale, Michigan, during the Halloween weekend, the Justice Department announced today.
A federal criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Michigan accuses two residents of Dearborn — a seething, buzzing hive of hundreds of thousands of Muslims — of planning the attack with three co-conspirators.
Agents arrested two “U.S. citizens,” Mohmed Ali and another identified only as “Person 1” because he is a juvenile. On Friday, agents executed search warrants and turned up AR-15-style rifles and almost 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
The Criminal Complaint
A five-page summary synopsizes the 73-page complaint.
The complaint alleges that Ali and Person 1, who live in Dearborn,
were referenced in third-party conversations conducted in July, September, and October 2025 via an encrypted communication application in which other individuals stated that “brothers” to specifically include Person 1 and ALI are planning to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of the designated foreign terrorist organization (“FTO”) ISIS.
The complaint calls Majed Mahmoud a “co-conspirator,” and includes two more unnamed co-conspirators.
In August and September, 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,” the complaint continues:
MAHMOUD also purchased an AR-15 style rifle in September 2025, as 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.
Throughout September and October, those three and co-conspirators 4 and 5 practiced shooting the firearms at a gun range “to develop their firearms skills in furtherance of an attack,” the complaint alleges:
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 Co-conspirator 5 practiced shooting together at a gun range, arriving at the range with an AR-15 style rifle.
In October Ali, Mahmoud, and Person 1 allegedly met in parks multiple times in or around Dearborn. According to the complaint:
Person 1, ALI, and MAHMOUD traveled together to scout potential attack target locations in Ferndale, Michigan. Person 1, ALI, MAHMOUD, Co-conspirator 4, and Co-conspirator 5 also regularly communicated with each other and with other individuals who separately indicated that they have knowledge of the potential attack plans and related information.
The gang used encrypted communications and social media “to share extremist and ISIS-related materials that encourage attacks similar to what they planned,” the complaint alleges.
Person 1 and Ali allegedly discussed conducting the attack on Halloween, which the exchange called “pumpkin,” and “sought guidance” from an “Islamic extremist.”
The complaint continues:
On October 31, 2025, pursuant to federal search warrants, agents recovered, among other things, three AR-15 style rifles, two shotguns, four handguns, more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition compatible with the three AR-15 style rifles, optical sights, two GoPro cameras, a flash suppressor, tactical vests, and other related firearms parts and accessories at ALI’s and MAHMOUD’s residences.
And in a storage unit rented by ALI and visited by MAHMOUD, agents recovered two more chest rig vests, two black tactical backpacks, and 24 empty magazines compatible with the three seized AR-15 style rifles.
Extremist Dearborn
Reports on X claim the men are naturalized citizens from the Middle East, but the criminal complaint does not disclose that information.
Regardless, the arrest is no surprise. Muslims control the city. Its mayor is a Muslim, as is the police chief, who has bragged that 45 percent of the cops are Arabs.
Real Americans are increasingly fed-up and threatened there.
The most recent outrage in the caliphate city — in which Americans must tolerate the cacophonous call to prayer over loudspeakers five times daily — came from its Muslim mayor, Abdullah Hammoud.
When a city resident complained about renaming a street after a Hamas and Hezbollah terror supporter, Hammoud exploded like a suicide vest.
“I feel like having that sign up there is almost like naming a street Hezbollah Street or Hamas Street. Hezbollah bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans. I just feel it’s quite inappropriate,” Ted Barham said.
Replied Hammoud:
You are an Islamophobe. And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor you are not welcome here. The day you move out of the city will be the day I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.
Hammoud didn’t bother to apologize. He knew he didn’t have to.
Video posted to X shows a resident’s revelation that Muslim men spit on women as they walk down the street in 90-percent Muslim East Dearborn. The reason: No head coverings.
In 2013, the city apologized and taxpayers coughed up $300,000 to Christian evangelists who were arrested for “disturbing the peace” during an Arab International Festival. Their crime: sharing the Gospel with the Muslims.
