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WHAT HAPPENED: The March 12 ramming attack by a Lebanese-American man targeting Michigan’s largest Jewish Reform synagogue was orchestrated by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
WHO WAS INVOLVED: Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old Lebanese national and naturalized U.S. citizen; Ghazali’s brother, an alleged Hezbollah commander; and the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah.
WHEN & WHERE: The FBI revealed Ghazali’s ties to Hezbollah on Monday, March 30, 2026, following the March 12 attack.
KEY QUOTE: “This is the largest gathering place for Israelis in the State of Michigan in the United States. I have booby-trapped the car. I will forcefully enter and start shooting them. God willing, I will kill as many of them as I possibly can.” — Ayman Mohamad Ghazali in an alleged video taking credit for the attack
IMPACT: Ghazali had lost several family members just days earlier in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, including his brother, who appears to have been a commander in Hezbollah.
IN FULL
The man who targeted the largest Jewish Reform synagogue in Michigan earlier this month was directed by the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old Lebanese national and naturalized U.S. citizen, purposefully targeted the Jewish community when he drove his vehicle into Michigan’s largest synagogue and opened fire on March 12.
During a press conference, the FBI stated that Ghazali’s attack was motivated and directed by Hezbollah’s “militant ideology.” Jennifer Runyan, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Detroit, revealed that Ghazali recorded a video just before the attack in which he stated, “This is the largest gathering place for Israelis in the State of Michigan in the United States. I have booby-trapped the car. I will forcefully enter and start shooting them. God willing, I will kill as many of them as I possibly can.”
Ghazali, a resident of Dearborn Heights—which boasts a population of around 60,000 people, with 25 percent being of Arabic extraction—drove his Ford F-150 through the doors of the synagogue, the vehicle laden with commercial fireworks and gasoline. He subsequently exchanged gunfire with a security guard before fatally shooting himself.
The National Pulse previously reported that Ghazali had lost several family members just days earlier in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, including his brother, who appears to have been a commander in Hezbollah. In addition, the FBI noted that Ghazali had also watched footage of an Iranian fatwa calling for “total jihad against the U.S. military” shortly before carrying out the attack.
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