House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) on Wednesday criticized the Harris-Biden administration for bungled the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and then allowing thousands of migrants in – one of whom reportedly died in an incident Had planned. Terror attack on election day inspired by ISIS,
“After the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, more than 77 thousand Afghans were granted humanitarian parole, without any investigation and with no intention of knowing their whereabouts,” the House Speaker said. written on x“Nasser Ahmed Touhedi – the terrorist who planned the election day attack – was one of them.”
Tawhedi, 27, was charged by the Justice Department on Tuesday with conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
Afghan national and Oklahoma City resident entered US special immigrant visa Just days after the Harris-Biden administration pulled out of the war-torn country. The SIV granted Afghan refugees two years of legal status in the US with the ability to apply for an extension.
While on humanitarian parole, Touhedi allegedly stockpiled weapons and ammunition, communicated with an ISIS recruiter and destroyed his family’s property in preparation for carrying out a mass shooting with a teenage co-conspirator on November 5. Started destroying.
Johnson said, “Whether it’s his open borders policy or his failed foreign policy, this administration continues to endanger American lives by allowing terrorists, murderers, rapists and other violent criminals into our homeland.”
Former Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary of State Chad Wolf noted on Some information was ‘incorrect, incomplete, or missing.’
“DHS granted entry or parole to the US to deported people who were ‘not fully vetted’,” Wolf wrote,
Representative Randy Weber (R-Texas) argued that the Harris-Biden administration “should have done its job in 2021” to vet Afghan immigrants like Tawhedi.
“Maybe – just maybe – the federal government should have done its job in 2021 when it paroled nearly 77,000 Afghans to the US and properly vetted those who settled here,” Weber tweeted,
“Once again, Kamala Harris has failed to protect our communities, allowing dangerous individuals, including potential terrorists, to get away,” the congressman said.
Representative Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) feared that other untested SIV recipients might have ISIS sympathies.
“How many other people are there in our neighborhood?” tiffany written on x,
The Justice Department announced Tawhedi’s arrest the same day the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency warned that ISIS threats “concern me most.”
Ken McCallum, director general of the security service MI5, said on Tuesday, “Today’s Islamic State is not the force it was a decade ago, but after retreating for a few years, they have resumed their efforts to export terrorism Is.” According to Politico,
During the 2024 campaign, former President Donald Trump frequently took credit for destroying ISIS during his presidency.
During his administration, US forces killed then-ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in an October 2019 raid in northwestern Syria.
Tawhedi, who reportedly had a picture of al-Baghdadi on his phone, faces up to 20 years in prison.
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