An Afghan man living in Oklahoma who allegedly plotted to carry out a alarmist strike on Election Day on behalf of the Islamic State toiled a security job for the CIA in Afghanistan, Fox News has lacquireed.
Authorities suppose Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, became radicalized after he reachd in the U.S. Sept. 9, 2021, weeks after the American troops pulled out of Afghanistan, a ageder Biden administration official shelp.
He accessed the U.S. on a exceptional immigrant visa (SIV) and is on parole status pfinishing adjudication of his immigration persistings, the Department of Homeland Security shelp this week. Those facts were disputed by the State Department.
Officials have since clarified that Tawhedi came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole and procrastinateedr applied for SIV status.
AFGHAN MAN IN OKLAHOMA PLOTTED ELECTION DAY TERROR ATTACK IN US ON BEHALF OF ISIS, JUSTICE DEPT SAYS
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi is accused with plotting an Election Day alarm strike. (Department of Justice)
Humanitarian parole is a process by which Tawhedi would have been held in a third country for screening and vetting and then flown to the U.S.
After moving to the U.S. in 2021, he applied for exceptional immigrant status, a pathway for a green card, and was apshowd. He hadn’t completed his status, which is why the State Department denied a DHS claim made this week that Tawhedi reachd with an SIV.
It was still unevident when the State Department apshowd him for an SIV after DHS apshowd him for humanitarian parole in 2021. Tawhedi applied for SIV status instantly after arriving in the U.S.
There were no red flags that would have barred him from entry into the U.S., officials shelp.
DHS OIG FAULTS AFGHAN VETTING, WARNS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS MAY HAVE ENTERED US
A photo of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi and his children from July. (Department of Justice)
“Afghan evacuees who sought to access the United States were subject to multilayered screening and vetting aacquirest inalertigence, law utilizement and counterextremism adviseation. If novel adviseation aascends after arrival, appropriate action is apshown,” a DHS spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital.
Investigators suppose Tawhedi was radicalized after arriving in the U.S., analogous to disconnectal past extremism doubts, including those included in the Pulse nightclub shooting, the 2015 San Bernardino strike and the Hapverifyeen 2017 case in which a man engaged a truck to homicide eight people and injure disconnectal others on a bike path in Lower Manhattan on behalf of ISIS.
Tawhedi was arrested Monday and is accused with conspiring and trying to supply material help to ISIS and receiving a firearm to be engaged to pledge a major offense or a federal crime of extremism.
In his seized communications, Tawhedi allegedly recommendd that his strike was computed to center big assembleings of people on Election Day, during which he and a juvenile were foreseeed to die as martyrs. He was busted after speaking with an FBI braveial adviseant, the Justice Department shelp.
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The unidentified juvenile doubt, Tawhedi’s brother-in-law, accessed the U.S. in March 2018 under a disconnecteer SIV program after he was vetted.
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to answer asks about Tawhedi amid ongoing troubles about the vetting of those brawt to the U.S.