A man arrested for allegedly threatening to set off a bomb in Fort Worth is now facing federal charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, 30, of Fort Worth, was charged with transmitting a threatening communication after allegedly threatening to build "a bomb to explode in the Fort Worth area" in a TikTok livestream late last month. A recording of what appears to be the stream was posted to online platforms and went viral soon after.
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According to the FBI, at least two other male voices can be heard interacting with Alokozay in the video in a language identified as Dari, which is spoken in Afghanistan. The complaint alleges Alokozay threatened a suicide attack on the other participants on the call and 鈥渋nfidels鈥� in the the Fort Worth area. The complaint also claimed Alokozay said he was not afraid of deportation or getting killed.
Authorities say they used facial recognition software to identify Alokozay鈥檚 driver license, which were then used to find his place of employment and his home in Fort Worth. He was arrested Nov. 25, after stopping for gas on his way to work in Haslet. Alokozay confirmed he was the individual in the clips, according to court documents.
He is currently being held in the Tarrant County Jail on a state terrorism charge. 四虎影院 reached out to Alokozay's attorney and will update this story with any response.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Alokozay entered the country legally through Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden-era program established to resettle tens of thousands of Afghans 鈥� including those who assisted the U.S. military 鈥� following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
It鈥檚 not clear if Alokozay qualified for relocation after aiding the U.S. military.
According to the Migration Policy Institute, Afghan immigration to the United States has more than quadrupled since 2010, with much of the increase coming since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, the suspect in the Nov. 27 Washington, D.C. shooting, allegedly entered the U.S. through the same program, according to DHS. Reports link Lakanwal to a CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan.
The Trump administration has since announced it would for Afghan nationals indefinitely, a move that creates uncertainty for Afghans who have settled across Texas and the U.S., according to Ali Zakaria, a Houston immigration attorney.
"The sentiment that the government had initially 鈥� that these are the people that helped the U.S. government for over 20 years, and that we should be helping them now 鈥� that sentiment has disappeared over time, and more definitively with the shooting in Washington, D.C," he said.
Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider contributed to this report.
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