The attack, along with a fatal shooting at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, raises fears of retaliation on U.S. soil over the war in Iran.

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building.

The explosive-laden vehicle that barreled into the preschool entrance of a Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside is registered to a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon, according to a report. The car — driven by an unidentified antisemitic maniac who died after smashing through the doors of Temple Israel and hurling down the hallway in a targeted attack Thursday afternoon — is linked to a Lebanese resident of Dearborn,