A planned assault on a United States Army installation has been foiled, according to the Department of Justice.
The DOJ announced Wednesday that 19-year-old Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, a Melvindale, Michigan resident, was arrested for plotting to carry out a terror attack against a military base.
The target of the alleged plot was the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) center at the Detroit Arsenal.
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“TACOM, a Major Subordinate Command of Army Materiel Command, manages the Army’s ground equipment supply chain, which constitutes about 60 percent of the Army’s total equipment,” the command’s website explains.
“If a Soldier drives it, shoots it, wears it or eats it, we sustain it.”
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Authorities say Said, a former soldier in the Michigan Army National Guard, wanted
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