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A terror attack planned for election day has been prevented and the FBI is taking credit for it. It doesn’t seem like the Federal Bureau of Instigation set this one up, either. On Tuesday, the DOJ “unsealed charges against Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, who now lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and was arrested Monday.” Despite clear ties to ISIS, the would-be martyr “came to the U.S. shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on a Special Immigrant Visa given to those who aided the military.” That means he was an embedded sleeper cell, even then.
Election day terror
On Tuesday, October 7, one month before another hotly contested presidential election, Christopher Wray proclaimed he’s keeping America safe for Democracy by thwarting “a plot to carry out a terror attack.”
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi stands accused of “purchasing two AK-47 assault rifles, ten magazines, and 500 rounds of ammunition.” He got them from an undercover fed. His “brother-in-law, a juvenile, acted as an accomplice.”
Shooting up a crowd on election day isn’t nice. According to the court paperwork, that’s exactly what he planned to do. They have lots of evidence, including “seized communications with an ISIS recruiter.” He really should have had a lawyer present when “speaking to law enforcement after his arrest.”
Tawhedi admitted that “he intended to target large gatherings of people.” Not only that, “both he and his brother-in-law expected to die as martyrs in the attack.”
Nobody at the State Department or ICE noticed his radical ties to terrorists. “This defendant, motivated by ISIS, allegedly conspired to commit a violent attack, on Election Day, here on our homeland,” Christopher Wray explains.
He’s thrilled to have something to report which shows they’re on the job. “I am proud of the men and women of the FBI who uncovered and stopped the plot before anyone was harmed.”
Number one priority
“Terrorism,” Wray declared, not burning Donald Trump at the stake, “is still the FBI’s number one priority, and we will use every resource to protect the American people.” After they had him safely behind bars, the feds charged him with “conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS.”
That’s a serious charge. It “carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.” He could get another 15 years for “receiving a firearm to carry out a crime of terrorism.” Planning it for election day is considered an “aggravating” circumstance and he’ll get bonus time for that.
After convincing immigration authorities he’s such a great guy that he’s been helping the U.S. Military for years, they gave him a special visa. He bought the assault rifles and “was also in the process of selling his home.”
He had already “purchased one-way tickets for his wife and other family members.” They were all set to fly back to Afghanistan on October 17, long before election day, to live according to “pure Islam.” Apparently, they prefer living in virtual slavery to religious fanatics.
Clinching the guilty verdict shouldn’t be difficult once the jury hears the wiretaps. They provide solid evidence of “Tawhedi speaking with an ISIS recruiter and discussing plans to purchase the weapons and have his family settled when they arrived in Afghanistan.” He did some homework, too.
He “searched how to access cameras in Washington, D.C., visiting the webcams for both the White House and the Washington Monument. He also researched gun laws, including which states have concealed carry.” Merrick Garland had to get his two cents in, observing that his crew “foiled the defendant’s plot to acquire semi-automatic weapons and commit a violent attack in the name of ISIS on U.S. soil on Election Day.” He didn’t even have to set this one up. That made his day. He doesn’t want to think about the ones he might be missing.
