An Afghan national was arrested this week after he claimed he was building a bomb and intended to target a building in Fort Worth, Texas, authorities said.
Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was apprehended Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security after posting a video to his TikTok profile with the alleged threat. He is being charged at the state level.
He was arrested a day before Rahmandullah Lakanwal, 29, also an Afghan national who came to the US as part of Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, shot two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, on Nov. 26.
A Homeland official could not confirm any connection between the two Afghan men, and it was not immediately known how Alokozay got his immigration status through the Biden era program.
Alokozay (inset) came to the US in the wake of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan as part of the Biden policy, according to DHS. He was made a lawful permanent US resident on Sept. 7, 2022, Fox News reported.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer on Alokozay after his arrest, the outlet reported, and arresting agents included members of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. --->READ MORE HERE
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Mohammad Dawood Alokozay charged federally with threatening suicide attacks after social media video
An Afghan national who arrived during the same Biden administration Kabul evacuation effort as the West Virginia National Guard shooting suspect was federally charged Tuesday with planning to attack civilians.
Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, 30, of Afghanistan but currently residing in Fort Worth, Texas, was charged at the state level last week with making a terrorist threat.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Ryan Raybould, announced federal charges for Alokozay, whom he said was threatening to "build a bomb," "conduct a suicide attack," and kill Americans and others." The feds charged Alokozay with transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce.
Raybould cited a video allegedly posted to social media by Alokozay that included Arabic lettering and the suspect "angrily gesturing and speaking Dari, a language commonly spoken in Afghanistan while conversing with two other males on a video call."
Alokozay arrived in the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That effort resettled Afghans following the U.S. military withdrawal from Kabul at the end of August 2021.
On Sept. 7, 2022, Alokozay was admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident (LPRs).
President Donald Trump and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow announced just days ago they are doing a full investigation of LPRs, also known as green cards, from certain areas after another Afghan evacuee – Rahmanullah Lakanwal – was accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guardsmen in Farragut Square in Washington, D.C. --->READ MORE HEREFOLLOW LINK BELOW TO A RELEVANT STORY:
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