Top lawmaker demands Biden reveal if other terrorists have been let in the U.S. after Afghan’s deadly Election Day plot
President Joe Biden’s administration must reveal whether more suspected terrorists are living in the US after an Afghan migrant’s plot was foiled on Election Day, a top Republican has demanded.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, who was employed by the CIA as a security guard, was arrested Tuesday along with an unnamed minor.
Tawhedi was brought to the US through a rushed Special Immigration Visa (SIV) process days after the Biden-Harris administration’s deadly 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He is accused of ‘conspiracy’ and ‘attempts to provide material support to ISIS.’
The would-be assassin is also said to have obtained weapons and ammunition to “carry out a violent attack on US soil in the name of ISIS” at a large gathering of Americans on November 5.
Even more shocking, sources familiar with the investigation say Tawhedi worked as a security guard for the CIA during his time in Afghanistan.
It is unclear whether he was radicalized by ISIS in Afghanistan or after fleeing to the US with his family.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, told investigators after his arrest Monday that he planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month
Now House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., is demanding answers from Biden’s top officials.
He investigates FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, on how this ISIS-inspired terrorist was let in.
“These recent arrests raise serious concerns about the continued threat that ISIS and its fanatical supporters pose to U.S. national security, as well as the Biden-Harris administration’s lack of screening and vetting capabilities,” Green wrote to the FBI and DHS chiefs in a letter obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
“The Committee also remains concerned about the threat of a ‘lone wolf’ actor or multiple actors attempting to conduct a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.”
“While the Committee commends the efforts of law enforcement agencies to thwart this alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist plot on Election Day, the Committee finds it unacceptable that the Biden-Harris Administration is dangerously failing to take action to safeguard U.S. national security by targeting suspected terrorists to enter the interior. of the United States to plot terrorist attacks.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump also denounced Kamala Harris at a rally Wednesday for her role in immigration policy.
“It was reported yesterday that Kamala Harris had brought in a completely unknown refugee from Afghanistan, who has now been arrested for plotting an ISIS terrorist attack in the United States during our elections,” he said.
“Kamala has completely abandoned her duty to law-abiding Americans and has spent the past four years importing criminals, unvetted refugees and terrorists into our country,” he said.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson also denounced the White House earlier this week when the arrest was announced.
“After the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, more than 77,000 Afghans were granted humanitarian parole, with little to no vetting and no intention of knowing their whereabouts.”
“Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi – the terrorist who plotted an attack on Election Day – was one of them.”
“Whether it is their open borders policy or failed foreign policy, this administration continues to risk American lives by allowing terrorists, murders, rapists and other violent criminals into our homeland.”
Tawhedi, who entered the US in 2021 on a special immigrant visa, had taken steps in recent weeks to further his attack plans, including ordering AK-47 rifles.
Tawhedi was charged with conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group, which the US designates a foreign terrorist organization.
Soldiers help Afghans evacuate the country in August 2021, as the Taliban swept through the province after provinces took control
Texas Republican Rep. Michael Cloud posted online: “Under the watch of Biden, Harris and Mayorkas, an Afghan with ties to ISIS and who was plotting a terrorist attack was allowed into our country.”
“This is what happens when Democrats prioritize open borders over American security.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., similarly wrote about
“Our country is undoubtedly vulnerable to threats from the Biden-Harris administration.”
The Tennessee Republican’s letter also details the arrests earlier this year of several other migrants from Tajikistan who lived across the U.S. before they were arrested after crossing the border illegally.
These eight men lived in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia and were arrested in June after it emerged that they too had ties to ISIS.
So far, only three of the eight ISIS-linked migrants have been deported. Four are currently in ICE facilities awaiting flights and one is still awaiting legal proceedings. CBS News reports.
The Afghan and his accomplice’s plan to purchase automatic assault rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several magazines was halted after authorities broke the deal.
Tawhedi was charged with conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group, which the U.S. designates a foreign terrorist organization.
Taliban soldiers celebrate the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023
He faces a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison for providing support to ISIS and fifteen years for obtaining a firearm to commit a felony or federal crime of terrorism.
Green requested that Wray and Mayorkas turn over the documents related to Tawhedi by October 23.