By Kara Berg and Robert Snell, MediaNews Group

Three Dearborn men accused of plotting a domestic terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State consented Monday to being detained in county jails while their federal criminal cases are pending.

Ayob Nasser, 19, his 20-year-old brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, 20, appeared Monday morning in federal court in Detroit for a detention hearing. All three waived the hearing and consented to being detained.

The hearing followed a week of law enforcement activity related to the the largest federal terrorism prosecution in Michigan in more than 20 years and arrests spanning the Continental U.S. ― from the Seattle area to Metro Detroit and New Jersey ― as federal prosecutors have charged eight people in relation to the alleged terror plot. That i

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