FBI thwarts jihadist terrorist attack in Dearborn, Michigan, planned for Halloween weekend

The suspects discussed the plot in online chatrooms where an undercover FBI agent was present.

By Matthew Xiao, The Washington Free Beacon

The FBI on Friday foiled a jihadist terrorist plot in Dearborn, Mich., arresting multiple suspects for plotting an ISIS-inspired attack over Halloween weekend.

Authorities “thwarted a Jihadist terror plot stemming from Dearborn earlier this morning—reportedly timed to coincide with children trick-or-treating later tonight,” journalist Eitan Fischberger wrote in an X post.

FBI director Kash Patel confirmed in a statement on X that officials “thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend.”

“The plot was inspired by ISIS,” CNN reported, citing two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.

The suspects discussed the plot in online chatrooms where an undercover FBI agent was present, the officials told CNN.

Authorities have arrested two of the participants and are questioning three others.

This is far from the only ISIS-linked terrorist plot on U.S. soil this year.

In June, an Afghan national who had pledged allegiance to ISIS pleaded guilty to two terrorism-related offenses.

In January, U.S. citizen Shamsud-Din Jabbar killed 15 people and injured dozens more when he drove a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans.

Jabbar, who died in a shootout with police, had an ISIS flag in his vehicle and pledged allegiance to the group in Facebook videos posted just hours before the attack.