July 4 Terrorist Plot by American Who Pledged Allegiance to al-Qaeda Was Thwarted

Voinovich Bicentennial Park in Cleveland, where Demetrius Pitts carried out "reconnaissance" for a terrorist attack as recently as the last week of June 2018. Screenshot via Google Maps Street View

The FBI announced that it thwarted a July 4 terrorist plot in Cleveland, Ohio, by a man who pledged allegiance to the al-Qaeda terror group and who sought to kill military personnel.