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Two New Jersey teenagers, Tomas Kaan Guzel and Milo Sedarat, have been arrested in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired attack that the FBI prevented in Michigan on Halloween. Guzel was apprehended at Newark Liberty International Airport while attempting to board a flight to Istanbul, reportedly intending to travel onward to Syria. The group, which also included Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, allegedly used encrypted communications and social media to share extremist materials, referring to their planned Halloween attack as 'pumpkin day'. An undercover NYPD officer monitored Guzel, who was reportedly discussing an attack on the LGBTQ+ community in Detroit and considering travelling to Syria for ISIS training. The planned attack was intended to emulate the 2015 Paris ISIS attacks, which resulted in 130 fatalities.
