Two men nabbed in ISIS-style plot

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00:00Authorities in Michigan say they successfully thwarted a terrorist attack over Halloween

00:05weekend. Two local men are facing charges of supplying weapons for an ISIS-like attack

00:10in the U.S. and had allegedly been scouting LGBTQ-friendly bars in a suburb of Detroit

00:15as targets. Authorities say they were inspired by the Paris attacks in 2015 that killed 130 people.

00:22Mahmed Ali and Majid Mahmood of Dearborn were allegedly planning to carry out the attack on

00:26Halloween night. Now, the criminal complaint also refers to five unidentified co-conspirators as

00:31well as a minor who was allegedly going to carry out the attack with Ali. And the plan was apparently

00:36for everyone else to flee to Syria to join ISIS. Now, investigators say they tailed the two men for

00:42weeks as they looked for targets and practiced at a local gun range. Feds raided the suspects' homes

00:47and a storage unit before any kind of gruesome attack could be carried out. Authorities say

00:53that they recovered three AR-15-style rifles, two shotguns, four pistols, more than 1,600 rounds

00:59of ammunition, and a trove of planning information.