{"id":73004,"date":"2025-12-02T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:14:09","slug":"afghan-national-hit-with-federal-charges-of-threatening-texas-suicide-bomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73004\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan national hit with federal charges of threatening Texas suicide bomb attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan national was hit with a federal charge Tuesday after allegedly plotting to carry out a suicide car or truck bombing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/29\/us-news\/afghan-national-from-operation-allies-welcome-arrested-charged-for-threatening-to-bomb-texas-town\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Dawood Alokozay<\/a>, who has been living in Fort Worth, Texas, said in a video posted on TikTok, X and Facebook days before Thanksgiving that Americans and \u201cinfidels\u201d must perish and that he was going to use an improvised explosive device \u2014 with a yellow cooking oil \u201cfavored by the Taliban\u201d \u2014 to carry out the slaughter, according to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37821645\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohammad-dawood-alokozay-afghan-national-116393186.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Mohammad Dawood Alokozay.\" class=\"wp-image-37821645\"  \/>Afghan national Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was arrested and hit with federal criminal charges on Tuesday for plotting to carry out a suicide bombing attack with a vehicle on Americans. Texas Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 23 video call displayed the would-be suicide bomber \u201cangrily gesturing and speaking Dari, a language commonly spoken in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/26\/us-news\/afghan-national-rahmanullah-lakanwal-idd-as-alleged-gunman-in-shooting-of-2-national-guard-members-in-dc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Afghanistan<\/a>, while interacting with at least two other males,\u201d per a DOJ press release.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s Dallas Field Office thwarted the attack, with the assistance of the Fort Worth Resident Agency and Police Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety.<br \/>US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould filed a single charge against Alokozay, 30, of making threatening communications in interstate commerce.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56179775;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37821652\" width=\"331\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-video-call-recorded-posted-116579843.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of a social media profile, a city skyline, and a man gesturing with text labels &quot;State of Texas Police&quot; and &quot;Afghan terrorist.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-37821652\"  \/>Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, who has been living in Fort Worth, Texas, said in a video posted on TikTok, X and Facebook days before Thanksgiving that Americans and \u201cinfidels\u201d must perish. U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Aolkozay is in custody pending an initial appearance before a US magistrate judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Afghan national came into America during the Biden administration and as alleged, explicitly stated that he came here in order to kill American citizens,\u201d said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public safety threat created by the Biden administration\u2019s vetting breakdown cannot be overstated \u2013 the Department of Justice will continue working with our federal and state partners to protect the American people from the prior administration\u2019s dangerous incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Afghan national was hit with a federal charge Tuesday after allegedly plotting to carry out a suicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35474,4028,36460,36461,294,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-73004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-afghanistan","tag-arrests","tag-bomb-threats","tag-bombs","tag-crime","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}