Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack had lost family in Israeli strike on Lebanon
by William Christou in Beirut, Richard Luscombe and a from World news | The Guardian on (#747AT)
Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon and became a naturalized US citizen, lost two brothers, a niece and a nephew in the airstrike
The armed suspect who drove a vehicle into the hallway of a large Michigan synagogue complex that includes a school had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon just last week, an official said on Friday.
A potential mass-casualty event was averted when security guards already in place at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township on the outskirts of Detroit killed the driver before any harm could come to the synagogue's staff, teachers and 140 children at the early childhood center there on Thursday afternoon.
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