According to the local CBS affiliate on October 9th:
The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.
Tawhedi, who arrived in the U.S. in September 2021, had taken steps in recent weeks to advance his attack plans, including by ordering AK-47 rifles, liquidating his family’s assets and buying one-way tickets for his wife and child to travel home to Afghanistan, officials said.
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Tawhedi’s alleged co-conspirator was not identified by the Justice Department, which described him only as a juvenile, a fellow Afghan national and the brother of Tawhedi’s wife.
PJ Media actually covered it on the 8th. They provide a copy of the criminal complaint filed in the US District Court at the end of their report.
3 comments:
How shocking to think that, after 20 years of our recruited Afghan police and soldiers leading green-on-blue attacks against us, one of the refugees we selected for a special visa might do the same.
Not that an accusation is proof; at this point, the Justice Department is cash-only, up front.
Who woulda thunk it?
Anyway, it's good they caught these two, but I'm guessing there are others they haven't caught. Election day seems to be a recognizable target date. I remember reading about the election day attacks in Iraq.
Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and it looks like a G4 solar storm will hit in the morning. Might see the aurora as far south as Alabama, but that might come with electrical disruption as well. What a month.
And it seems he was a CIA security guard in Afghanistan:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13946177/afghan-isis-plot-terror-attack-worked-cia-report.html
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