FBI confirms Hezbollah inspiration for March Detroit truck crash into synagogue.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the F.B.I have confirmed that a man who crashed his pickup vehicle through doors at an area in Michigan was inspired by Hezbollah, according to federal officials on Monday morning (March 30). This attack earlier this month resulted from what authorities described as "an act of terrorism," with investigators noting specific connections between Ghazali's group and the perpetrator.
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The FBI stated that Ayman Ghazali's truck-ramming assault on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township was classified for the first time as an act of terrorism, explicitly noting it inspired by Hezbollah.
— (Michiganadvance)"J'en tuerai autant que possible" (I will kill you all I can): The FBI confirmed that this attack against a Michigan synagogue is motivated and carried out under inspiration from Lebanon's militant organization Hezbollah in the United States
— (Feeds.leparisien.fr)The FBI classified the attack on Temple Israel in Michigan as Hezbollah-inspired terrorism that deliberately targeted Jewish people by Ayman Mohamed Ghazali at approximately noon on March 12. Although only one person was killed, a security guard and dozens more law enforcement officers were injured or hospitalized due to gunfire from inside an overturned truck filled with smoke after it rammed the temple's entrance door twice before being set ablaze in its own vehicle by fireworks.
The FBI has classified an earlier this month's March 12 truck-and-gun attack on Michigan's largest synagogue as terrorism inspired by Hezbollah. The perpetrator was a U.S.-born Lebanese citizen who consumed pro-Hezbollah ideology but whose membership in the group remains unverified, and no other people were killed during the incident where children attended preschool nearby