Michigan Synagogue Attacker Killed by Security Personnel

What Happened?

A vehicle was driven into Temple Israel, a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan yesterday, in what authorities believe was a deliberate attack on the facility.

The driver of the vehicle was armed with a rifle, but he was killed by the facility’s onsite security personnel. The vehicle caught fire and started a blaze which was extinguished, but 30 first responders suffered from smoke inhalation during the firefighting.

None of the people inside the temple, including one hundred forty children at a day care facility, were injured during the incident. The suspect was identified as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, who is believed to have lost four family members to an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon last week.

Why it Matters

Though the Temple Israel incident appears to be unrelated to the fatwa issued by Iranian religious leaders to attack Israel and the United States, the attack underscores the security challenges facing a wide range of buildings, facilities, and campuses worldwide.

Facilities like Temple Israel can be targeted because they are affiliated with the Jewish religion and the state of Israel. Police have not yet commented on a potential motive for the attack, but it was likely aimed at the temple because of its affiliation with Israel.

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This type of incident is known as a lone wolf style of attack in the law enforcement community because the perpetrator does not appear to be part of a larger group or network, yet they were able to carry out an attack on their own.

While the motive may have been revenge for the killing of civilians in Lebanon, anti-Israel violence is not a new phenomenon. According to the British Broadcast Corporation, in the past decade there have been over ten thousand anti-Israel incidents in the United States, although not all of those involved physical violence.

The war against Iran being waged by Israel and the United States will likely cause an increase in lone wolf and terrorist attacks, because past wars in the Middle East also led to a rise in terrorism worldwide. The enormous number of potential targets, which numbers in the tens of thousands, creates a significant security challenge for law enforcement and private security.

Terrorist groups often operate on the John Dillinger philosophy, who once said of security personnel “you have to be at every bank all the time, I only have to be at one bank for a few minutes.”

How it Affects You

Public facilities like Temple Israel will face an increased threat landscape for the duration of the war with Iran, and likely for many months after that war has ended. Lone wolf attacks are difficult to predict because perpetrators often have no criminal record or affiliation with any terrorist groups, but without the resources of an organization behind them the amount of damage one attacker can do is thankfully limited.

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