00:00Many U.S. law enforcement officials are on heightened alert as the Iran war enters its third week.
00:06The limits of vigilance were on display this week as seeming lone wolf attacks unfolded more than 500 miles apart
00:14in Virginia and Michigan on Thursday alone.
00:17In Michigan, a Lebanon-born man police identified as Amon Ghazali rammed an explosives-laden truck into the Temple Israel
00:27Synagogue.
00:27Although authorities have not announced a motive, this came a week after Israel bombed his family's town in Lebanon on
00:34March 5th, killing two of his brothers and a niece and nephew, according to news reports.
00:40Jennifer Runyon, special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit field office, said on Friday that Ghazali died from a
00:48self-inflicted gunshot wound after engaging in gunfire with two security officers.
00:54At approximately 12.22 p.m., a second security officer engages Ghazali in a gunfight from the front of the
01:00vehicle.
01:01And soon thereafter, Ghazali's vehicle, his engine compartment, catches on fire.
01:07And at some point during the gunfight, Ghazali suffers a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
01:13In the bed of the truck, we found large quantities of commercial-grade fireworks and several jugs of flammable liquid
01:20we believe to be gasoline, some of which has been consumed in the fire.
01:24Everyone at the synagogue, including many children, escaped unharmed, although dozens of law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation.
01:33Around the same time as the synagogue attack, a man who was previously convicted of supporting a designated terrorist group
01:40fatally shot one person and injured two others, both U.S. Army personnel, at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia,
01:49which has close ties to the U.S. military.
01:51The attacker was killed.
01:54Counterterrorism experts say these kinds of lone wolf outbursts of retaliatory violence are the hardest to spot in advance and
02:03intercept.
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