Washington, DC [US], November 30 (ANI): The Afghan nationwide, who was arrested a day earlier than the Wednesday taking pictures close to White Home, has been charged on the state degree with making a terrorist menace in Texas, Fox Information reported.
Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) informed Fox Information that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was taken into custody on Tuesday after he posted a video on TikTok allegedly indicating he was constructing a bomb with the intent to focus on a constructing within the Fort Price space in Texas.
Alokozay had migrated to the US underneath the ‘Operation Allies Welcome’ throughout Joe Biden’s tenure, after the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. Notably, suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal (29), being charged with first-degree homicide for allegedly taking pictures two Nationwide Guard members close to the White Home, additionally migrated to the US in 2021 underneath the identical programme.
Alokozay was arrested by the Texas Division of Public Security and an FBI Joint Terrorism Job Drive in a coordinated regulation enforcement effort, Fox Information reported, including that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer on Alokozay following his arrest.
His arrest this week got here a day after the Wednesday taking pictures close to White Home that killed one of many two Nationwide Guard members in Washington, DC. Considered one of them (Spec. Sarah Beckstrom) has died, whereas the opposite stays wounded.
Lakanwal, the Afghan nationwide, accused of finishing up the taking pictures, can be charged with first-degree homicide, the Washington Submit reported earlier. Jeanine Pirro, US legal professional for Washington, DC, mentioned that extra counts are more likely to comply with towards suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
The Washington Submit reported that the upgraded prices of first-degree homicide, as an alternative of the preliminary prices of assault, elevate the likelihood for the suspected attacker to face the demise penalty within the case.
Though capital punishment has been abolished within the District of Columbia, Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi on Thursday mentioned she’s going to search the demise penalty towards the person accused of taking pictures two West Virginia Nationwide Guard members in Washington, the Hill reported.
In August, US president Donald Trump had asserted that his authorities would search capital punishment in each homicide case that occurred in Washington, DC.
In the meantime, Trump on Friday mentioned that he would completely pause migration from all ‘third-world nations’ to permit the US system to terminate unlawful admissions into the USA. (ANI)
