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Laura Coates Live

Sources: Suspects Had Explosives In Car Used To Attack Synagogue

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The FBI described the attack as a "targeted act of violence" against the Jewish community while the DHS identified the suspect as a naturalized US citizen born in Lebanon. Plus, President Trump has been repeating his claim that the US has won the war even as the conflict widens.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Laura Coates. Tonight, two horrifying attacks here at home, one at a synagogue,

0:08.0

the other university, and they're soaking a growing fear. Should Americans be worried about a rising

0:14.4

terror threat on U.S. soil? And one big question lingering is any that kick it to the war with Iran.

0:21.6

Both attacks are still being investigated, but what we already know is alarming.

0:26.6

Now this, this is smoke billowing from a synagogue about a half hour outside of Detroit.

0:32.6

That synagogue also houses an education center that includes a preschool.

0:36.6

They've got a senior center, food bank, and more.

0:40.6

And police say that a driver plowed his car through the front doors and drove into the

0:46.5

building.

0:47.6

That car was apparently loaded with explosives and the suspect was killed after a firefight with

0:53.8

security guards. And thanks to their

0:55.8

heroic actions, no one inside that synagogue was seriously hurt. The Department of Homeland Security

1:02.7

is now identifying the suspect as a 41-year-old man originally from Lebanon. They say he came to the

1:09.7

United States in 2011 on an

1:11.7

immigrant visa and was granted citizenship in 2016. So to tell investigators

1:17.5

that us investigators are looking into reports that he told people that members of

1:22.1

his family in Lebanon were killed in a recent Israeli airstrike. Now authorities

1:27.4

they have not yet publicly identified

1:29.3

or provided a motive.

1:31.3

But they are saying this.

1:33.3

I can confirm that we are leading the investigation

1:37.3

right now as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.

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