ISIS-loving Detroit man's shocking manifesto reveals he wanted to become a terrorist and massacre American soldiers

A young American man 'painstakingly' drew up plans to join ISIS and kill US soldiers with suicide drones and exploding cars, prosecutors allege.

Jibreel Pratt, 25, stashed a gun and ammunition in a wall of his house in Detroit and had a phone hidden in a container of dog food.

He taped himself pledging his life to terrorism, bought plane tickets to the Middle East, acquired weapons and gear, and wrote a goodbye letter to his family.

Pratt's horrifying scheme was meticulously scrawled on 30 handwritten notes titled 'my personal plans', prosecutors wrote in court documents.

'He sketched and sent tactical diagrams for fighting against and using explosives in doorways to kill American soldiers,' they wrote.

Jibreel Pratt, 25, 'painstakingly' drew up plans to join ISIS and kill US soldiers with suicide drones and exploding cars, prosecutors allege

'And on two separate occasions, Pratt sent shadowy crypto payments to fund ISIS operations, including the funding of an 'istishhadi' (or martyrdom) brother.' 

Other plans allegedly included using suicide drones and remote-controlled cars packed with bombs - all cooked up in his grandmother's basement.

Pratt allegedly detailed his desire to create a 'specialized unit for intelligence based operations' that would 'kill or kidnap without detection' to an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS recruiter, beginning in February 2023.

He pitched plans for ISIS to 'operate in the shadows' and use his IT skills to create an 'intelligence arm',' the court documents alleged.

'He planned to travel to the Middle East, join the terrorist organization, and serve ISIS as a leader. He was also willing to create a terrorist cell here.'

Pratt's horrifying scheme was meticulously scrawled on 30 handwritten notes titled 'my personal plans'

Pratt allegedly bragged to the ISIS recruiter he would 'be a big asset' for ISIS, knew how to hack cryptocurrency and had a computer hacking skill called 'penetration testing', which meant to 'breach companies' systems.

He allegedly sent Bitcoin payments of $350 and $546 to ISIS via the fake recruiter in March and May last year, believing they would help ISIS operations.

Pratt was allegedly financing his planning with a crypto fraud scheme that amassed $102,000 in unexplained Bitcoin.

'Pratt had sporadic employment over the last few years, but was still able to accumulate several firearms, ammunition, combat gear, an apartment and sophisticated computer equipment,' prosecutors alleged.

By August last year he told the undercover agent 'I am ready to leave this place, for good' and was amassing cash for his trip to the Middle East.

'In Pratt's own words, he planned on 'leaving everything behind' because 'these people are savages. Like rabid dogs',' prosecutors wrote.

Instead, the FBI arrested him at Detroit Airport on August 26 and charged him over the crypto scam, and released him on bail.

Pratt allegedly detailed his desire to create a 'specialized unit for intelligence based operations' that would 'kill or kidnap without detection' 

'DELETE EVERYTHING... I WAS CAPTURED AND NOW RELEASED. I WILL CONTACT YOU SAFELY SOON,' he wrote to the fake recruiter when he made bail.

Days later he wrote: 'The future is uncertain, I need to leave brother.'

'He told the (informant) that his 'drive and determination has not lowered butincreased'... (and) warned that 'I am no longer worried about these people, if anything, they should be worried about me',' prosecutors wrote.

'He wanted to 'grow' ISIS to even 'bigger heights' than when it had unleashed savage tyranny across the Middle East.'

Pratt also 'targeted and doxed a citizen who he mistakenly identified' as the FBI agent who arrested him.

He redoubled his efforts and booked a Delta Airlines flight to Istanbul, Turkey, and had photos taken for a fake passport.

Then he wrote goodbye letter to his family, later found hidden in Islamic books on his windowsill, including his father and 'PawPaw'.

'Take care of yourself and be safe. Things were just not working out for me no matter what I did or tried,' he wrote to his father.

'We all have our own paths in life while mine could be cut short, I just hope one day you come to know true Islam so we can meet in Jannah. 

'If not, I love you and it was nice meeting you and the many laughs.'

During a search, they found the hidden weapons, including an AR-style semiautomatic rifle (pictured) and a handgun

Before he could get on the plane, police swooped on Tuesday and arrested him.

During a search, they found the hidden weapons, including an AR-style semiautomatic rifle and a handgun.

Pratt allegedly bragged to the undercover agent that 'he was packing' and once threatened to shoot a man who confronted him at a petrol station.

'The fact that Pratt has not yet fulfilled his goal of traveling to fight for ISIS does not lessen his danger to the community,' prosecutors alleged, applying to keep him behind bars. 

'Quite the opposite. Pratt told the (informant) that he wanted to 'start here... and create the cell here' because 'if my job is related to cells, we should establish here prior to my departure.

'Pratt's statements are powerful evidence of his dangerousness, and he provided them unfiltered to the ISIS source.

'Pratt's running dialogue with the ISIS source is overflowing with Pratt's violent plans and is ample evidence of his danger to the community.' 

Pratt is charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization and faces 20 years' jail for each count if convicted.