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In the preliminary investigation, the officials recovered that Tawhedi subscribed to Islamic State propaganda, converted to foundation which masqueraded arsenic a beforehand for the militant group. (AP)
The FBI has arrested an idiosyncratic who is said to beryllium influenced by the Islamic State panic outfit and was readying to onslaught ample crowds successful the US connected Election Day, scheduled for November 5.
According to documents successful which the fishy is charged, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told the officials that helium and 1 of his co-conspirators were readying to execute the onslaught connected Election Day adjacent period and dice arsenic martyrs successful the midst of it.
Tawhedi, who came to the United States successful 2021, had precocious his onslaught program and adjacent ordered AK-47, liquidating his family’s assets and buying one-way tickets for his woman and kid to question location to Afghanistan, according to quality bureau Associated Press.
The apprehension comes astatine a clip erstwhile the United States is facing aggregate information threats successful assorted forms and the agency’s Director Christopher Wray telling The Associated Press successful August that helium was “hard pressed to deliberation of a clip successful my vocation wherever truthful galore antithetic kinds of threats are each elevated astatine once.”
In a connection connected Tuesday, Wray said “Terrorism is inactive the FBI’s fig 1 priority, and we volition usage each assets to support the American people.”
In the preliminary investigation, the officials recovered that Tawhedi subscribed to Islamic State propaganda, converted to foundation which masqueraded arsenic a beforehand for the militant group. Tawhedi besides viewed webcams for the White House and the Washington Monument successful July.
However, the Justice Department did not uncover the individuality of Tawhedi’s alleged co-conspirator.
(with inputs from AP)
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