TEXAS (THE THURSDAY TIMES) — An Afghan man who entered the United States under President Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome has been arrested in Texas after allegedly posting a TikTok video in which he appeared to build a bomb and name the Fort Worth area as his target, according to federal and state officials cited by Fox News.
An Afghan national has been arrested in the US after posting a TikTok video appearing to show himself building a bomb and naming the Fort Worth area as his target, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Mohammad Dawood Alokozay has been charged with making a… pic.twitter.com/tn3Sp6nwmv
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Authorities say Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was detained on Tuesday in a joint operation involving the Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force after investigators reviewed the video and treated it as a credible threat to the wider Fort Worth region. Court records show he is charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat and is being held in Tarrant County Jail. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has filed a detainer, giving the federal government the option to take custody if he is released.
Homeland Security officials, quoted by Fox News, confirmed that Mr Alokozay arrived in the United States under Operation Allies Welcome, the programme launched in 2021 to resettle Afghans who had worked with American forces after the fall of Kabul. He became a lawful permanent resident on 7 September 2022, a detail that has quickly entered the political debate over the security screening of evacuees.
The case comes in the shadow of a separate incident in Washington, where another Afghan from the same programme, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is accused of ambushing two National Guard members near the White House, killing Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and critically injuring Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. The fact that both men travelled through the same resettlement pipeline has become a rallying point for critics who argue that the evacuation was rushed and under vetted.
Supporters of the programme counter that more than a hundred thousand Afghans who assisted coalition forces passed multiple checks and have settled without incident, and they warn that using a small number of alleged cases to question the entire community risks collective punishment and long term stigma. Rights groups say they now expect a wave of retrospective reviews and detainers that could push many families who believed their status secure back into uncertainty.
Investigators in Texas have released few details about what, if anything, was recovered in searches linked to the TikTok video, and have not suggested any direct link between Mr Alokozay and the Washington suspect beyond their shared immigration route. As Mr Alokozay awaits further court hearings, a short clip filmed on a phone has moved from a social media platform into the centre of a national argument about terrorism, immigration and the unfinished legacy of the Afghan war.∎
