Afghan national arrested in Texas, charged with making a terroristic threat

An Afghan was arrested this week after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was constructing a bomb with an meant goal within the Fort Value, Texas, space, the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) informed Fox Information.

Courtroom data present Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged on the state stage with making a terroristic risk.

Alokozay got here to the US as a part of Operation Allies Welcome below the Biden administration, DHS mentioned. The trouble resettled Afghans following the U.S. navy withdrawal from the nation in the summertime of 2021.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the alleged gunman within the capturing of two Nationwide Guard members in Washington, DC this week, additionally arrived within the US below the identical program.

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Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, inset, is being held on the Tarrant County Corrections Heart in Fort Value, Texas, court docket data present. (Chris Torres/Fort Value Star-Telegram/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photographs)

“The magnitude of the nationwide safety disaster that Joe Biden has unleashed on our nation over the previous 4 years can’t be overstated. President Trump has charged his complete group to proceed rooting out this evil inside our borders,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Saturday in response to Alokozay’s arrest.

Alokozay was taken into custody Tuesday — a day earlier than the capturing in Washington, D.C. — by the Texas Division of Public Security and an FBI Joint Terrorism Activity Power in a coordinated regulation enforcement effort.

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Undated file photograph of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect within the capturing of two Nationwide Guard troopers in Washington, DC, November 26, 2025. (Offered by the Ministry of Justice)

On September 7, 2022, Alokozay was admitted to the US as a lawful everlasting resident.

The Tarrant County Corrections Heart, proper, and the Tim Curry Legal Justice Heart in downtown Fort Value on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (Amanda McCoy/Fort Value Star-Telegram/Getty Photographs)

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since housed a detainee at Alokozay following his arrest.

Fox Information’ Brooke Singerman contributed to this report.