FBI: Synagogue Attack Terrorism, Hezbollah Inspired

0:00It's March 31st. I'm Corey with the story. This is Vancouver News today, driven by AI. The FBI just dropped a bombshell, calling that vehicle ramming at a Michigan synagogue back on March 12th, a straight up act of terrorism inspired by Hezbollah. The target was Temple Israel, the biggest Jewish temple in the state, right in West Bloomfield Township outside Detroit. The attacker, a 41-year-old Lebanese-born guy, named Iman Muhammad Ghazali, drove a pickup truck, packed with fireworks and gasoline right into. The building, where it got stuck in a hallway and burst into flames, Ghazali had lost several family members just days earlier, on March 5th, when an Israeli air strike in Lebanon killed his brother Ibrahim, Ibrahim's. Two kids and another brother named Kasim, but investigators say he was already deep into pro Hezbollah videos before that hit. Over the week leading up, he scoped out Jewish centers, schools, and cultural spots around Detroit while grabbing gear for the plot.

1:02Officials laid it out clear, at a press briefing, no other deaths besides Ghazali, who took his own life with a gunshot, but a security guard got hurt. And some cops needed treatment for smoke inhalation. The U.S. attorney for the area, stressed Ghazali, moved under Hezbollah's direction, whether direct orders or just their propaganda firing him up to. Target Jews New details show no signs of accomplices so far, and Ghazali wasn't on any terror watchlist or under investigation beforehand. He'd been in the U.S. as a legal resident, but Hezbollah's been on America's terrorist list since 1997. This ramps up worries about lone actors getting radicalized online, especially with tensions boiling over in the Middle East. Stay tuned as the feds. Take deeper into any wider links.