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WASHINGTON: An Afghan man has been charged in Texas with threatening to build a bomb and carry out a suicide attack, US officials said Tuesday as the Trump administration vows a crackdown on Afghan migrants after a deadly shooting. Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, 30, of Fort Worth, allegedly made the threats in a November 23 video that he shared on TikTok, X and Facebook, the Justice Department said in a statement. In the video, Alokozay allegedly praises the Taliban and threatens to carry out a suicide attack on Americans. &quot;Thanks to public reports of a threatening online video, the FBI&#39;s Joint Terrorism Task Force apprehended this individual before he could commit an act of violence,&quot; FBI Dallas special agent in charge Joseph Rothrock said. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said Alokozay &quot;came into America during the Biden administration and as alleged, explicitly stated that he came here in order to kill American citizens.&quot; He faces up to five years in prison if convicted of making a threatening interstate communication. Alokozay&#39;s arrest comes a week after the shooting near the White House in Washington of two National Guard members. A 29-year-old Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, has been charged with first degree murder in connection with the attack which left one of the soldiers dead. Lakanwal had been part of a CIA-backed &quot;partner force&quot; fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, and entered the United States as part of a resettlement program following the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. President Donald Trump said Sunday his administration intends to pause asylum decisions for &quot;a long time&quot; after the shooting. &quot;We don&#39;t want those people,&quot; he said on social media.

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An Afghan man was charged in Texas for threatening a suicide attack and praising the Taliban in an online video. The arrest follows a deadly shooting near the White House by another Afghan national, prompting the Trump administration to vow a crackdown on Afghan migrants.

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Afghan man arrested in Texas threatened suicide attack