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FBI arrests Afghan man who officials say planned Election Day attack in the US
https://www.msn.com ^ | October 8 2024 | ERIC TUCKER

Posted on 10/08/2024 6:42:38 PM PDT by Beowulf9

ASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.

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Tawhedi, who arrived in the U.S. in September 2021, had taken steps in recent weeks to advance his attack plans, including by ordering AK-47 rifles, liquidating his family's assets and buying one-way tickets for his wife and child to travel home to Afghanistan, officials said.

The arrest comes as the FBI confronts heightened concerns over the possibility of extremist violence on U.S. soil, with Director Christopher Wray telling The Associated Press in August that he was "hard pressed to think of a time in my career where so many different kinds of threats are all elevated at once.”

“Terrorism is still the FBI’s number one priority, and we will use every resource to protect the American people,” Wray said in a statement Tuesday.

An FBI affidavit does not reveal precisely how Tawhedi came onto investigators' radar, but cites what it says is evidence from recent months showing his determination in planning an attack. A photograph from July included in the affidavit depicts a man investigators identified as Tawhedi reading to two young children, including his daughter, “a text that describes the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife.”

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1 posted on 10/08/2024 6:42:38 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

I wonder what the odds are that he came in through our wide open Southern Border?


2 posted on 10/08/2024 6:47:22 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Beowulf9

And how many more lone wolves are out there?


3 posted on 10/08/2024 6:47:40 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Given the Sept 2021 date of his arrival I’ll guess he came as a ‘guest’ of the US military evacuation.


4 posted on 10/08/2024 6:49:01 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Az Joe

My head will be on a swivel on Election Day.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 6:49:04 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Beowulf9

Give him the old heave-ho from a plane, like bin Laden, but don’t shoot him first.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4269715/posts


6 posted on 10/08/2024 6:51:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Beowulf9

I like it how they say he’s from Oklahoma City uh no he’s not he came here from Afghanistan due to Harris and Biden’s disastrous let everyone in and ask questions later open border policy


7 posted on 10/08/2024 6:52:55 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Beowulf9

8 posted on 10/08/2024 6:53:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I may be under the bed


9 posted on 10/08/2024 6:55:12 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: SaveFerris

They do have a fascination with death and never ending sex


10 posted on 10/08/2024 7:00:12 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Beowulf9

Well the jokes on him. We don’t do election day anymore, it’s election season.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 7:00:45 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: existentially_kuffer

Brother Dave Hunt said it was 70 on 70 sheets, inside 70 mansions or something and that she regain her virginity after each encounter

Of course he had read the whole of the Koran and the Hadiths while I only know certain parts of each


12 posted on 10/08/2024 7:02:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Beowulf9

Oklahoma City, huh?

That’s been a hotbed of muzzie violence since the Murrah Building bombing and the attempted bombing of the University of Oklahoma football game in 2005.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 7:05:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You got that right.

It’s all on this admin.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 7:23:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

How do we know that this apparent Jihadi and BiXiden’s DOJ are not connected at the hip?


15 posted on 10/08/2024 7:24:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Beowulf9

And that jackass Markwayne Mullin brought in as many Afghans as he could. He even went over there to try to get as many as he could.

The ignorant POS.


16 posted on 10/08/2024 8:16:56 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: EvilCapitalist

If the fbi is involved, they brought him into the country on a cia jet.


17 posted on 10/09/2024 5:29:49 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships)
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To: Beowulf9

America changed for the worse after a Palestinian Immigrant murdered Bobby Kennedy back in 1968. The US is still reeling from that murder. A new generation has gotten used to it. We oldsters still remember the LIBERTY we had before that time which is now long gone.


18 posted on 10/09/2024 6:25:36 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Seems they never bring the fact up that guy who killed Bobby was a Palestinian.


19 posted on 10/09/2024 7:14:51 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Alejandro Mayorkas was asked about this and refused to answer. He said he was here to talk about the hurricane...

Mayorkas refuses to answer questions on Afghan accused of Election Day terror plot
Mayorkas was asked while he was in North Carolina
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-refuses-answer-questions-afghan-accused-election-day-terror-plot


20 posted on 10/10/2024 3:31:59 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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