Terrorist attack on election day: Afghan citizen charged

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Afghan national living in Oklahoma City was charged Tuesday with conspiring to carry out an Election Day terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of ISIS, the Justice Department said.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, conspired and attempted to “provide material support to ISIS and obtained firearms and ammunition to carry out a violent attack on U.S. soil on behalf of ISIS,” a Justice Department press release said on Tuesday. If convicted of all charges, Tawhedi faces up to 35 years in prison.

He and his brother-in-law were arrested Monday after purchasing two AK-47 rifles and ammunition from an undercover FBI agent in a rural area of Oklahoma, the FBI reported in a court affidavit. Tawhedi admitted after his arrest that he and his brother-in-law bought the weapons to carry out an attack on Election Day that “targeted large gatherings of people,” according to the affidavit, and that they expected to die in the attack and become a martyr.

According to the affidavit, on July 25, he used his Google account to access webcams at the White House and the Washington Monument.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department foiled the conspiracy.

“We will continue to combat the ongoing threat that ISIS and its supporters pose to America’s national security, and we will identify, investigate and prosecute those who seek to terrorize the American people,” he said.

FBI Director Christopher Wray also said the conspiracy was uncovered and stopped before anyone was harmed.

“This ISIS-motivated defendant allegedly conspired to commit a violent attack here in our homeland on Election Day,” Wray said in a statement. “Terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority, and we will use all resources to protect the American people.”

Tawhedi arrived in the United States on September 9, 2021 and was here on a special immigrant visa, according to the affidavit. The timing coincides with a period in which thousands of Afghans who fled their country as the Taliban came to power were resettled in cities across the United States

About 1,000 Afghans were relocated to Oklahoma City.

US Senator James Lankford described him as an Afghan refugee in a press release. Tawhedi lived in an apartment with his wife and 1-year-old child, the FBI said.

His court-appointed attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday evening.

The brother-in-law was identified in the affidavit as an Afghan national who lives with his parents in a single-family home in Moore, Oklahoma. His name was not released because the FBI reported him as a juvenile.

According to the affidavit, the co-conspirator entered the United States on March 27, 2018, on a special immigrant visa.

(This story has been updated to add new information.)

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