Man Accused Of Supporting ISIS Allegedly Said He Was Planning Attack At Jewish Place Of Worship
The Department of Justice charged a New Jersey man with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. Mohamed Sagha, 22, attempted to provide “a subscription to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to enable…
The Department of Justice charged a New Jersey man with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS.
Mohamed Sagha, 22, attempted to provide “a subscription to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to enable secure communications” to ISIS, “knowing that the organization was a designated foreign terrorist organization” and that it “had engaged in and was engaging in terrorist activity and terrorism,” according to a legal complaint.
“Sagha expressed an intent to assist one of the members of an ISIS-supporters online chat group with an attack on a place of worship” in an online chat with a confidential human source (CHS), the department alleged in the press release. Sagha had been communicating with the CHS, who he thought was a member of ISIS, since October 2025, according to the complaint.
The man also allegedly told the CHS that he was considering carrying out an attack of his own, “possibly on a National Guard location or on a Jewish place of worship,” according a Monday DOJ press release. He then shared images and/or videos of the locations with the CHS, and stated that they were near his residence in Wayne, New Jersey.
“The defendant allegedly wanted to attack targets in the United States in support of ISIS and its hateful ideology, but the FBI detected and put a stop to his violent plans,” Assistant Director Donald Holstead of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division stated in the press release.
Sagha appeared in front of the federal court on Monday, and now faces charges of up to 20 years in prison, a $250,ooo fine and a life term of supervised release, per the release.
From approximately December 2025 to June, Sagha allegedly communicated online in at least one group chat “wherein ISIS supporters discussed, among other things, potential attacks on targets within the United States, including places of worship,” according to the complaint. In March, Sagha allegedly unsuccessfully attempted to visit Syria so that he could be in ISIS territory.