The Justice Department said that an Afghan citizen living in the United States was nabbed for planning a terrorist act in the United States on Election Day. The attacker was going to carry out the act for ISIS.
Tuesday, federal police nabbed Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, for planning to kill Americans on November 5.
Tawhedi’s plan must have been in the works for a while since he sold off his family’s assets and moved them to another country to get ready for it. Besides that, he had a huge collection of firing weapons and ammo that he planned to use in his attack.
AG Merrick Garland said, “As charged, the Justice Department stopped the defendant’s plan to get semi-automatic guns and use them to carry out a deadly attack for ISIS on U.S. soil on Election Day.”
“We will keep fighting the danger that ISIS and its followers pose to American national security, and we will find, investigate, and bring to justice the people who want to scare the American people. Thank you very much to the people who work for the FBI, the National Security Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma. You stopped this attack and do great work every day to protect our country.”
“This defendant reportedly planned to carry out a deadly attack on our country on Election Day, with ISIS as a driving force,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
The 27-year-old first came to the US in 2021 on a special type of immigrant card.
According to computer records that the FBI looked at, Tawhedi often watched ISIS messaging. He gave money to an organization that “represents ISIS and sends money to them.”
