{"id":64198,"date":"2016-02-06T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64198"},"modified":"2016-02-06T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:53:45","slug":"khalil-abu-rayyan-planned-terrorism-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64198","title":{"rendered":"Khalil Abu-Rayyan planned terrorism in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64199\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64199\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Khalil-Abu-Rayyan.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Khalil Abu-Rayyan\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Khalil-Abu-Rayyan.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Khalil-Abu-Rayyan.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/wayne\/2016\/02\/05\/fbi-dearborn-hts-man-plotted-isis-attacks-church\/79894722\/\">Detroit Free Press<\/a> tells about Khalil Abu-Rayyan, a Dearborn Heights man who claimed to FBI informants that he supported ISIS and intended to commit an act of terrorism in the area. He hasn&#8217;t been charged with any terrorist-type crimes, but only because he&#8217;d already been arrested for possession of a controlled substance and an illegal firearm. He had initially planned to attack a 6,000 member church and then altered his plan to attack a hospital where his arresting officer was recovering from a heart attack &#8211; with the intention of killing the officer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since May of 2015, the FBI has been conducting an investigation of Khalil Abu-Rayyan regarding increasingly violent threats he has made to others about committing acts of terror and martydom \u2014 including brutal acts against police officers, churchgoers and others \u2014 on behalf of the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraqi and Levant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The FBI had been tracking Abu-Rayyan through social media, phone conversations, and surveillance. He had two Twitter accounts on which he expressed support for ISIS, the FBI said in the complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Khalil Abu-Rayyan first wanted to attack a church because  &#8216;it&#8217;s easy and a lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church.&#8217; Huh, imagine that &#8211; targeting a gun-free zone. Who would have thought that would happen? One day, one of these guys is going to avoid talking to one of the millions of FBI informants, you know, like those folks in San Bernadino did&#8230;and the guy in Chattanooga&#8230;and the guy in Little Rock&#8230;and the guy in Times Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Free Press tells about Khalil Abu-Rayyan, a Dearborn Heights man who claimed to FBI informants that he supported ISIS and intended to commit an act of terrorism in the area. He hasn&#8217;t been charged with any terrorist-type crimes, but only because he&#8217;d already been arrested for possession of a controlled substance and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Khalil-Abu-Rayyan.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gHs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}