The 27-year-old man was arrested while buying weapons allegedly to carry out the attack, intended to target large groups of people. The threat levels in the country continue to be high.

An Afghan national was arrested in the US state of Oklahoma for allegedly planning an attack on election day, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

According to the indictment, the 27-year-old plotted to provide "material support” to the so-called Islamic State group (IS) and obtained firearms and ammunition to “conduct a violent attack on US soil in the name” of the group.

The FBI said it found communication between the suspect, Nasir A. T. and a person whom he believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State.

  • @cheese_greater
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    -1711 hours ago

    Why is an Afghan national just randomly here?

    • @acosmichippo
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      47 hours ago

      A. T. entered the US in 2021 as part of the Special Immigrant Visa Program, available to people who worked with the US army or under chief of mission authority as translators or interpreters in Iraq or Afghanistan.

      The indictment did not mention whether the Afghan national was indeed a translator for the US armed forces.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 hours ago

      The FBI said it found (lol ok) communication between the suspect, Nasir A. T. and a person whom he believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State.

      He’s here so the feds can set him up and claim to be fighting terrorism while fully supporting actual terrorism and genocide in palestine, lebanon, etc.

    • @Coach
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      1311 hours ago

      kAmALA’s LOOsE bOrdEr pOLIcy! /s

    • @fluxion
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      410 hours ago

      Must have snuck on a plane while we were frantically abandoning them to the Taliban