Afghan national charged with planning 'violent' Election Day terror attack on behalf of ISIS

The FBI has arrested an Afghan antheral who officials accidental was inspired by the Islamic State militant enactment and was plotting an Election Day onslaught targeting ample crowds successful the U.S.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, told investigators aft his apprehension Monday that helium had planned his onslaught to coincide with Election Day adjacent month. 

He and a juvenile co-conspirator expected to dice arsenic martyrs, according to charging documents.

Tawhedi, who entered the U.S. successful 2021 connected a peculiar migrant visa, had taken steps successful caller weeks to beforehand his onslaught plans, including by ordering AK-47 rifles. 

He liquidated his family's assets and buying one-way tickets for his woman and kid to question location to Afghanistan.

'Terrorism is inactive the FBI's fig 1 priority, and we volition usage each assets to support the American people,' FBI Director Christopher Wray said successful a statement.

After helium was arrested, the Justice Department said, Tawhedi told investigators helium had planned an onslaught for Election Day that would people ample gatherings of people.

Tawhedi was charged with conspiring and attempting to supply worldly enactment to the Islamic State group, which is designated by the U.S. arsenic a overseas violent organization.

He faces a maximum situation condemnation of 20 years for providing enactment to ISIS and 15 years for obtaining a firearm to perpetrate a felony oregon a national transgression of terrorism. 

It was not instantly wide if helium had a lawyer who could talk connected his behalf. 

'As charged, the Justice Department foiled the defendant's crippled to get semi-automatic weapons and perpetrate a convulsive onslaught successful the sanction of ISIS connected U.S. ungraded connected Election Day,' said Attorney General Merrick Garland.

'We volition proceed to combat the ongoing menace that ISIS and its supporters airs to America's nationalist security, and we volition identify, investigate, and prosecute the individuals who question to terrorize the American people,' helium continued. 

'I americium profoundly grateful to the nationalist servants of the FBI, National Security Division, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Oklahoma for their enactment to disrupt this onslaught and for the enactment they bash each time to support our country.'