President Joe Biden’s administration must reveal whether there are more suspected terrorists living in the United States after an Afghan migrant’s Election Day plot was foiled, a top Republican demands.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, employed by the CIA as a security guard, was arrested Tuesday along with an unidentified minor.
Tawhedi arrived in the United States days after the Biden-Harris administration’s deadly military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 through a rushed Special Immigration Visa (SIV) process.
He is accused of “conspiring” and “attempting to provide material support to ISIS.”
The would-be assassin also allegedly obtained weapons and ammunition to “carry out a violent attack on American soil on behalf of ISIS” against a large gathering of Americans on November 5.
Even more surprising is that sources familiar with the investigation say Tawhedi worked as a security guard for the CIA while in Afghanistan.
It is unclear whether he was radicalized by ISIS in Afghanistan or after he fled to the United States with his family.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had 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 is investigating FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Secretary of Homeland Security. Alejandro Mayorkas, on how this ISIS-inspired terrorist was allowed entry.
“These recent arrests raise serious concerns about the ongoing threat that ISIS and its fanatical followers pose to the national security of the United States, as well as the deficiency in the investigative and enforcement capabilities of the Biden-Harris administration,” Green wrote to the chiefs. from the FBI and DHS in a letter obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
“The Committee also remains concerned about the threat that a ‘lone wolf’ or multiple actors may attempt to commit a terrorist attack on US soil.”
‘While the Committee commends law enforcement efforts to thwart this alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist plot on Election Day, the Committee finds it unacceptable that the Biden-Harris administration is failing precariously to take steps to safeguard the national security of United States by allowing suspected terrorists to enter the interior. of the United States to plan terrorist attacks.’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump also criticized Kamala Harris for her role in immigration policies during a rally Wednesday.
“Just yesterday it was reported that Kamala Harris brought a totally unauthorized refugee from Afghanistan, who has now been arrested for plotting an ISIS terrorist attack on the United States during our election,” he said.
“Kamala completely abandoned her duty to law-abiding Americans and spent the last four years importing criminals, unauthorized refugees and terrorists into our country,” he said.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson also sharply criticized the White House earlier this week when the arrest was announced.
“Following the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, more than 77,000 Afghans were granted humanitarian parole, with little or no investigation and no intention of knowing their whereabouts.”
“Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, the terrorist who was planning an election day attack, was one of them.”
“Whether through its open border policies or its failed foreign policy, this administration continues to risk American lives by allowing terrorists, murderers, rapists and other violent criminals into our homeland.”
Tawhedi, who entered the United States in 2021 on a special immigrant visa, had taken steps in recent weeks to advance his attack plans, including ordering AK-47 rifles.
Tawhedi was charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group, designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization.
Soldiers help Afghans evacuate the country in August 2021, as the Taliban rampaged through province after province, taking control.
Texas Republican Rep. Michael Cloud posted online: ‘Under the watch of Biden, Harris and Mayorkas, an Afghan national with ties to ISIS and who was planning 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., wrote similarly in elections in the name of ISIS”.
“Without a doubt our nation is vulnerable to threats because of the Biden-Harris administration.”
The Tennessee Republican’s letter also details the arrests earlier this year of several other immigrants from Tajikistan who were living on the other side of the United States before being arrested after illegally crossing the border.
These eight men lived in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia and were arrested in June after it came to light that they, too, had ties to ISIS.
So far only three of the eight immigrants connected to ISIS have been deported. Four are currently in ICE facilities awaiting flights and one is still awaiting legal proceedings, CBS News information.
The plot by the Afghan and his accomplice to buy automatic assault rifles, hundreds of cartridges and several magazines was stopped after authorities broke up the deal.
Tawhedi was charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group, designated by the United States as 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 prison sentence of 20 years for providing support to ISIS and 15 years for obtaining a firearm to commit a felony or federal terrorism offense.
Green requested that Wray and Mayorkas turn over documents related to Tawhedi by October 23.