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Afghan national living legally in the U.S. arrested for plotting Election Day terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS

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#1 Guess who he worked for?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-10 07:53|| 2024-10-10 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Samaritan's Purse ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-10 08:41|| 2024-10-10 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 To allow muslims to live here is like israel and gaza/west-bank. they are political more than religious. dar-al-islam vs dar-al-harb. we should expel them.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-10-10 08:51|| 2024-10-10 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Procopius2k, NBC has the information behind that tweet:

Afghan accused of plotting terror attack worked as CIA guard, officials say
It isn't yet known whether the man, who worked for the CIA in Afghanistan, radicalized before or after he arrived in the U.S. following the chaotic American withdrawal.

Oct. 9, 2024, 7:53 PM EDT
Afghanistan Withdrawal 2021
An Afghan man arrested on charges of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day worked as a security guard in Afghanistan for the CIA, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma and accused of plotting to kill Americans with an assault rifle on behalf of ISIS. Court documents said he had contributed to an ISIS charity in March and accessed online ISIS propaganda, but they did not say whether he was radicalized before or after he came to the U.S. in 2021. A senior law enforcement official said the FBI is still investigating that question.

The CIA declined to comment.

The Justice Department charging document says he entered on a Special Immigrant Visa “and is currently on parole status pending adjudication of his immigrant proceedings.” Special Immigrant Visas are given to Afghans who worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan after they pass DHS screening.

However, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told NBC News the charging document is incorrect, and that Tawhedi entered the U.S. on what’s known as humanitarian parole.

Officials say humanitarian parole generally entails far less screening than a Special Immigrant Visa.

The sources familiar with his work in Afghanistan say he would have had minimal interaction with Americans and he was not a CIA informant or a member of the U.S.-trained and armed paramilitary force known as the “Zero Units.” Many of those fighters were evacuated to the U.S. after rigorous screening and vetting.

Several assurances in the article that the refugees from Afghanistan were thoroughly vetted, though we know that was not actually true. There wasn’t time, even if plenty of Afghans hadn’t got out with either false documents or no documents at all.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-10 11:37|| 2024-10-10 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Mayorkas refuses to answer questions on Afghan accused of Election Day terror plot

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-10 23:30|| 2024-10-10 23:30|| Front Page Top

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