Posted on 10/13/2024 6:47:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A 22-year-old Afghan man suspected of supporting the Islamic State group has been arrested in France after police found he had links to another man charged with plotting an election-day attack in the United States. The US suspect was planning to attack a football stadium or shopping centre. According to a source close to the case, the two men are brothers.
The man, who was arrested Tuesday in southwestern France, is suspected of being an Islamic State group supporter, said a statement from prosecutors.
The US-based suspect had been in contact via the Telegram app with a person identified by the FBI as an Islamic State group recruiter, say US officials.
They alerted their French colleagues, leading to the arrest of three people aged 20 to 31 in southwestern France, a judicial source close to the French case said.
While the main suspect remains in detention, the other two have been released, prosecutors said.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Sounds like the same guy who was arrested in France was arrested in Oklahoma... if this is the same election day plot.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was arrested in the US, he livee in Oklahoma, just sold a house that wasn’t his...
...This was an entire family of ‘lone wolves’. Or Islamists.
“Tawhedi was also seen in a video recorded on July 20 reading to two children text that describes the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife,” the DOJ complaint states.
The children are Tawhedi’s daughter and his wife’s younger brother. The ISIS terrorist was telling them that Muslim terrorists get “married to 72 virgins”.
Tawhedi’s co-conspirator is described as a juvenile who appears to be Tawheid’s brother-in-law....
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