House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) on Wednesday accused the Harris-Biden administration of botching the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and then admitting tens of thousands of migrants, one of whom joined ISIS. He is said to have planned an inspired election-day attack. attack.
“After the failed Afghanistan withdrawal, more than 77,000 Afghans were granted humanitarian parole, with little review and no intention of knowing their whereabouts,” the House Speaker said. Ta. I wrote to X. “One of them was Nasir Ahmad Tauhedi, a terrorist planning an attack on election day.”
Tauhedi, 27, was indicted by the Justice Department on Tuesday on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
The Oklahoma City resident, an Afghan national, entered the United States on a special immigrant visa just days after the Harris-Biden administration withdrew from the war-torn country. The SIV granted Afghan refugees legal status in the United States for two years, with the possibility of applying for an extension.
While on humanitarian parole, Tauhedi allegedly stockpiled weapons and ammunition, contacted ISIS recruiters, and began liquidating his family's assets in preparation for the Nov. 5 mass shooting by his juvenile accomplice. are.
“Whether through its open borders policy or its foreign policy failures, this administration is endangering American lives by allowing terrorists, murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals into our homeland,” Johnson said. “We continue to be exposed to it,” he added.
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Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) argued that the Harris-Biden administration “should have done its job in 2021” to vet Afghan immigrants like Tauhedi.
“Maybe — just maybe — the federal government should have paroled some 77,000 Afghans into the United States in 2021 and properly vetted those resettled here.” Weber tweeted.
“Once again, Kamala Harris has failed to protect our communities and allowed dangerous individuals, including potential terrorists, to slip through the cracks,” he added.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) worried that other unvetted SIV patients could sympathize with ISIS.
“How many more people are in our neighborhood?” Tiffany I wrote to X.
The Ministry of Justice's announcement of Tauhedi's arrest came on the same day that Britain's head of domestic intelligence warned that the threat from ISIS was “of greatest concern to me”.
“Today's Islamic State is not the force it was 10 years ago, but years after being captured, it has resumed its efforts to export terror,” Ken McCallum, director of MI5, said on Tuesday. said. According to Politico.
In the 2024 campaign, former President Donald Trump often takes credit for destroying ISIS during his presidency.
US forces raided northwest Syria in October 2019 during the regime's reign, killing then-ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Tauhedi, who allegedly had a photo of al-Baghdadi on his cell phone, could face up to 20 years in prison.
