Aws Mohammed Naser (DOC photo)

A Michigan man was convicted Tuesday in federal court in Detroit of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and possessing a destructive device.

Aws Mohammed Naser, 37, formerly of Westland, was convicted following a five-week trial.

“Defendant Aws Mohammed Naser is a bombmaker and self-avowed ‘son of the Islamic State’—a vicious foreign terrorist organization hell-bent on murdering Americans and destroying our way of life," said interim Detroit U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. in a statement after the verdict.

"Naser tried to travel and fight for ISIS overseas but was turned away," Gorgon continued. "So, Naser turned his fight inward on America, gathered drones, and built a bomb in his basement. But our office is dedicated to finding and applyin

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