{"id":112454,"date":"2024-10-10T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112454"},"modified":"2024-10-10T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:22:57","slug":"afghan-accused-of-plotting-terror-attack-worked-as-cia-guard-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112454","title":{"rendered":"Afghan accused of plotting terror attack worked as CIA guard, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">An Afghan man arrested on charges of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day worked as a security guard in Afghanistan for the CIA, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27,\u00a0was arrested on Monday\u00a0in Oklahoma\u00a0and accused\u00a0of plotting to kill Americans with an assault rifle on behalf of ISIS.\u00a0Court documents said he had contributed to an ISIS charity in March and accessed online ISIS propaganda, but they did not say whether he was radicalized before or after he came to the U.S. in 2021.\u00a0A senior law enforcement official said the FBI is still investigating that question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The CIA declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A U.S. official said that Tawhedi, like other Afghans who resettled in the U.S., would have gone through robust security screening\u00a0in other countries\u00a0before\u00a0arriving in\u00a0the U.S. Court documents say Tawhedi entered the country in September 2021, about a month after the U.S. military completed its chaotic\u00a0withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cEvery Afghan resettled in the U.S. undergoes a rigorous screening and vetting process no matter which agency they worked with,\u201d the official said. \u201cThat process includes checking against a full range of U.S. records and holdings,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Department of Homeland Security, which plays a lead role in the vetting, declined to discuss the case, saying in a statement that \u201cAfghan evacuees who sought to enter the United States were subject to multi layered screening and vetting against intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism information. If new information emerges after arrival, appropriate action is taken.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But members of Congress and other U.S. officials have said that as the U.S. evacuated tens of thousands of Afghans in the waning days of the war, concerns emerged that not all of them were properly scrutinized. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oig.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/2022-09\/OIG-22-64-Sep22-Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the DHS inspector general said the agency \u201clacked critical data\u201d as it sought to screen the refugees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The CIA undertook its own large-scale evacuation operation\u00a0of\u00a0Afghans who had worked for or helped the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The question of how and why Tawhedi was in the country had become politically\u00a0charged\u00a0even before the revelation that he had worked for the CIA.\u00a0Donald Trump Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1844051732751638954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0on the X platform Wednesday: \u201cBorder Czar Kamala Harris literally imported a terrorist from Afghanistan into our country. Enough is enough!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was re-tweeting a post by Oklahoma\u2019s Republican Attorney general, who said: \u201cThe American people need to know that this radical Islamic terrorist was imported directly to the United States by the Biden-Harris Administration as part of their controversial refugee resettlement program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s not clear whether Tawhedi was a radical Islamist when he came to the U.S. and American officials declined to answer questions about how he was vetted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Justice Department charging document says he entered on a Special Immigrant Visa \u201cand is currently on parole status pending adjudication of his immigrant proceedings.\u201d\u00a0Special Immigrant Visas are given to Afghans who worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan after they pass DHS screening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told NBC News the charging document is incorrect, and that Tawhedi entered the U.S. on what\u2019s known as humanitarian parole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officials say humanitarian parole generally entails far less screening than a Special Immigrant Visa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The sources familiar with his work in Afghanistan say he would have had minimal interaction with Americans and he was not a CIA informant or a member of the U.S.-trained and armed paramilitary force known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/afghans-fought-secret-cia-trained-force-face-legal-uncertainty-us-rcna102105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zero Units<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Many of those fighters were evacuated to the U.S. after rigorous screening and vetting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to court documents, Tawhedi indicated in seized communications that he planned his attack for Election Day, Nov. 5. Authorities said that in an interview after his arrest, he confirmed that the attack was intended to target large gatherings and that he expected to die a martyr.\u00a0Authorities say he planned the operation along with a juvenile co-conspirator, described as an Afghan citizen with legal permanent resident status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The pair were arrested after they met two confidential human sources and an undercover FBI agent, who posed as business partners, at a rural location in the Western District of Oklahoma, to buy the rifles, 10 magazines and ammunition for the planned attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline-contributors articleBylineContainer\">\n<div class=\"expanded-byline article-expanded-byline\" data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\"><span class=\"byline-thumbnail byline-thumbnail--no-image expanded-byline__thumbnail\" data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"\/><span class=\"byline-name expanded-byline__name\" 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