Son of famed Iranian American poet arrested in NJ in connection with Michigan ISIS-inspired terror plot
Milo Sedarat, 19, was arrested at his father’s home in Montclair, New Jersey on Wednesday, in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot uncovered in Michigan last week
His father Roger Sedarat is an award-winning Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City
Feds also arrested a second suspect from Montclair, Tomas Kaan Guzel, also 19 – Guzel and Sedarat have been accused of involvement in a terror plot uncovered late October in Detroit, which feds say was meant to mimic the 2015 Paris ISIS attack
Guzel was arrested in a food court in Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport, where police said he was waiting for a flight to Turkey with the goal of reaching Syria and training with ISIS
Arrests come two days after two Michigan men, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, both 20, were charged with supplying weapons for the ISIS-inspired attack, allegedly taking aim at LGBTQ-friendly bars in Detroit
Charge sheet has five unidentified co-conspirators and a minor, who allegedly, was assigned to execute the attack along with Ali, while the rest of the group made their way to join ISIS in Syria
Feds preempted the attack, arresting the conspirators, raiding their homes and a storage unit, seizing their weapons cache before the could strike
Ali and Mahmoud have been charged each with a single count of transferring weapons and ammo for terrorism and face up to 15 years in prison if convicted

Milo Sedarat was arrested in Montclair, NJ, on Wednesday, in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot uncovered in Michigan last week
The son of a prominent Iranian American scholar has been arrested in tony Montclair, New Jersey, in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot uncovered in Michigan last week, law enforcement sources said.
Milo Sedarat the son of poet Roger Sedarat was arrested at his father’s home in Montclair on Wednesday.
The father is an award-winning Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City.
The federal agents arrested another suspect Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal, 19, also from Montclair in the round up.
The NJ men were taken into custody following a joint investigation by the NYPD’s Intelligence Bureau and the FBI.
The suspects have been accused of involvement in the plot uncovered in Detroit last week, which according to fed monitored conversations between the conspirators, was meant to copy the 2015 Paris ISIS attack, during which terrorists attacked civilians in packed public spaces and landmarks with guns and explosive devices.
In the end 130 people were killed in the terror unleashed in France on November 13, 2015.

Milo’s father, Roger Sedarat, [photo], is a noted Iranian American poet who is also a professor at Queens College in New York City
Tomas Kaan Guzel was arrested in a food court in Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport where he was waiting for a flight to Turkey with the goal of reaching Syria and training with ISIS, police said.
The suspect was allegedly set to travel on November 17, before he moved up his travel date after news broke about the Detroit raids and apprehension of the other terror suspects.
Guzel was waiting for his flight, which was set to take off early Wednesday, instead will be charged Wednesday at a New Jersey federal court along with Sedarat.
The arrests come just two days after two Michigan men were charged with supplying weapons for the ISIS-inspired attack allegedly taking aim at LGBTQ-friendly bars in Detroit.

20-year-old Mohmed Ali, [photo], was identified as one of the main co-conspirators aiming to unleash a mass shooting on Halloween night

Feds say the plot was meant to mimic the 2015 Paris ISIS attack which 130 people. It was to be led by Ali [right] and Mahmoud [left], who were seen on surveillance camera footage visiting a gun range

Other suspects seen visiting the gun range, albeit with their faces redacted, include hoodie wearing Ali, aka “Bukhari”, unnamed co-conspirator 5, as well as “Person 1,” the unnamed juvenile suspect with the alias “Athari”
The court document names Mohmed Ali, 20, and Majed Mahmoud also 20, from Dearborn, as conspiring to unleash a terror plot the code named “pumpkin,” a mass shooting plot on Halloween night, according to prosecutors.
The criminal complaint ultimately refers to five unidentified co-conspirators and a minor, labeled “Person 1,” the latter of whom was allegedly assigned to carry out the attack along with Ali, while the rest of the group made their way to join ISIS in Syria.
Investigators surveilled the men for weeks and tracked their phone movements, eventually following them to Ferndale, north of Detroit known for its bars and restaurants, many of which “intentionally attract members of the LGBTQ+ community,” the complaint reads.
According to the complaint, the two men and the juvenile practiced shooting at gun ranges in September and October.

The terror plot led by Ali and Mahmud was preempted when the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force raided the suspect’s search a home in Dearborn, MI, before they could strike
The terror plot led by Ali and Mahmoud was preempted when authorities raided three homes and a nearby storage unit rented by Ali in nearby Inkster, before they could strike.
The task force recovered three AR-15-style rifles, two shotguns, four pistols and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, as well as GoPro cameras, tactical vests, two tactical backpacks, 24 empty magazines and chest-rig vests when they searched Mahmoud and Ali’s homes and storage unit.
Investigators also found incriminating information when they searched the co-conspirator’s phones, including Google searches of “ISIS” and the “Islamic State.”
Ali and Mahmoud appeared in federal court November 3, each charged with a single count of transferring weapons and ammo for terrorism.
They duo who face up to 15 years in prison if convicted, were ordered held pending a Nov. 10 detention hearing.


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