An Afghan migrant on the terror watchlist spent a year in the U.S. was after he was released by Border Patrol.
Mohammad Kharwin, 48, a member of the ‘virulently anti-Western’ group, was apprehended when he illegally crossed into at San Ysidro, California, in March 2023.
But he was cut loose and allowed to roam the country after a judge declared he wasn’t a national security threat, NBC News.
Almost a year later, the FBI notified Immigrations and Customs Enforcement that he was a suspected member of the US-designated foreign terror group Hezb-e-Islami (HIG).
Kharwin was free on bond and waiting for an immigration hearing in 2025 when he was finally taken into custody in February.
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State Department STILL didn’t have a full Afghanistan evacuation plan when the Taliban stormed Kabul... days before the suicide blast: Devastating new details reveal the chaos in the bungled operation.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is investigating the Afghan withdrawal.
13 US service members died and hundreds of Americans were left behind in 2021
Testimony by two officials reveals how speed of Taliban advance surprised them.
Hours of private testimony by two of the top State Department officials who oversaw the evacuation from Afghanistan lays bare the confusion at the heart of the operation, and how they failed to respond to warning signs that the Taliban was sweeping across the country.
The result was a chaotic operation at Kabul’s airport in August 2021 with Americans scrambling to get on flights after the extremist group had seized control of the country.
American citizens had to pass through checkpoints run by the same gunmen who had spent years battling U.S. forces.
Yet even as the Pentagon prepositioned forces to support an evacuation as ground conditions worsened, the officials, Brian McKeon and Derek Chollet, said their priority had been to work out how to keep the U.S. embassy open.
They were still working on a plan to evacuate Americans and their Afghan allies when the militant group overran the capital.
Taliban gunmen swept into Kabul on August 15, 2021. The speed of their advance, as Afghan National Security Forces collapsed, took U.S. officials by surprise
Two top State Department officials, Derek Chollet (left) and Brian McKeon were interviewed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee investigation last year. Their testimony, obtained by DailyMail.com, offers fresh insight into how officials failed to anticipate the Taliban advance
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