Afghan national hit with federal charges of threatening Texas suicide bomb attack

An Afghan national was hit with a federal charge Tuesday after allegedly plotting to carry out a suicide car or truck bombing.

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 “infidels” must perish and that he was going to use an improvised explosive device — with a yellow cooking oil “favored by the Taliban” — to carry out the slaughter, according to the Department of Justice.

The Nov. 23 video call displayed the would-be suicide bomber “angrily gesturing and speaking Dari, a language commonly spoken in Afghanistan, while interacting with at least two other males,” per a DOJ press release.

The FBI’s 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.
US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould filed a single charge against Alokozay, 30, of making threatening communications in interstate commerce.

Aolkozay is in custody pending an initial appearance before a US magistrate judge.

“This Afghan national came into America during the Biden administration and as alleged, explicitly stated that he came here in order to kill American citizens,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement.

“The public safety threat created by the Biden administration’s vetting breakdown cannot be overstated – the Department of Justice will continue working with our federal and state partners to protect the American people from the prior administration’s dangerous incompetence.”