Afghan man charged with Election Day terror plot screened multiple times, worked CIA security job

An Afghan antheral surviving successful Oklahoma who allegedly plotted to behaviour a violent onslaught connected Election Day connected behalf of the Islamic State worked a information occupation for the CIA in Afghanistan, Fox News has learned.

Authorities judge Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, became radicalized aft helium arrived successful the U.S. Sept. 9, 2021, weeks aft the American troops pulled retired of Afghanistan, a elder Biden medication authoritative said. 

He entered the U.S. connected a peculiar immigrant visa (SIV) and is connected parole presumption pending adjudication of his migration proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security said this week. Those facts were disputed by the State Department.

Officials person since clarified that Tawhedi came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole and aboriginal applied for SIV status.

AFGHAN MAN IN OKLAHOMA PLOTTED ELECTION DAY TERROR ATTACK IN US ON BEHALF OF ISIS, JUSTICE DEPT SAYS

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi is charged with plotting an Election Day panic attack.   (Department of Justice)

Humanitarian parole is simply a process by which Tawhedi would person been held successful a 3rd state for screening and vetting and past flown to the U.S.

After moving to the U.S. successful 2021, helium applied for peculiar migrant status, a pathway for a greenish card, and was approved. He hadn't finalized his status, which is wherefore the State Department denied a DHS assertion made this week that Tawhedi arrived with an SIV.

It was inactive unclear erstwhile the State Department approved him for an SIV aft DHS approved him for humanitarian parole successful 2021. Tawhedi applied for SIV presumption instantly aft arriving successful the U.S. 

There were nary red flags that would person barred him from introduction into the U.S., officials said. 

DHS OIG FAULTS AFGHAN VETTING, WARNS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS MAY HAVE ENTERED US

A photograph of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi and his children from July. (Department of Justice)

"Afghan evacuees who sought to participate the United States were taxable to multilayered screening and vetting against intelligence, instrumentality enforcement and counterterrorism information. If caller accusation emerges aft arrival, due enactment is taken," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Investigators judge Tawhedi was radicalized aft arriving successful the U.S., akin to respective past coercion suspects, including those progressive successful the Pulse nightclub shooting, the 2015 San Bernardino onslaught and the Halloween 2017 lawsuit successful which a antheral utilized a motortruck to execution 8 radical and injure respective others connected a motorcycle way successful Lower Manhattan connected behalf of ISIS. 

Tawhedi was arrested Monday and is charged with conspiring and attempting to supply worldly enactment to ISIS and receiving a weapon to beryllium utilized to perpetrate a felony oregon a national transgression of terrorism.

In his seized communications, Tawhedi allegedly indicated that his onslaught was planned to target ample gatherings of radical connected Election Day, during which helium and a juvenile were expected to dice arsenic martyrs. He was busted aft speaking with an FBI confidential informant, the Justice Department said. 

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The unidentified juvenile suspect, Tawhedi's brother-in-law, entered the U.S. successful March 2018 nether a stricter SIV programme aft helium was vetted. 

On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to reply questions astir Tawhedi amid ongoing concerns astir the vetting of those brought to the U.S.