The FBI has released a timeline of the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, detailing the attacker's actions, social media posts and search history before targeting the synagogue.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the March 12 attack at Temple Israel was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism aimed at Michigan’s Jewish community.
Federal investigators say the March 12 attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism aimed at Michigan’s Jewish community.
The FBI says a man with an assault-style rifle who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by the militant group Hezbollah and was seeking to kill many Jewish people.
Israel's military is claiming that the brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week was a Hezbollah commander.
The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus.
A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building.
The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues has been identified as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal officials.
The FBI has confirmed that the man who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.