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Suspects charged in alleged terror plot cited ISIS and may have tried to replicate Paris terror attack on U.S. soil, FBI says

Mohmed Ali, left, and an alleged co-conspirator are seen at a gun store on September 25, according to a criminal complaint. (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan)
By Alaa Elassar, Leigh Waldman, Jeff Winter and Holly Yan •

Two men face federal charges for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in the US – possibly on the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks that killed at least 130 people, authorities say.

An FBI raid on Halloween morning stunned neighbors in Dearborn, the second-safest city in Michigan and home to the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US.

Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud face charges of “Receiving and transferring, and attempting and conspiring to transfer, firearms and ammunition knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that the firearms and ammunition would be used to commit a Federal crime of terrorism,” according to a criminal complaint.

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