Feds say Afghan man in Texas made suicide bomb threat on social media

Federal authorities have charged an Afghan citizen living in North Texas with threatening to carry out a suicide bomb attack after the man announced his intentions on various social media platforms, prosecutors said Dec. 2.

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, 30, a resident of Fort Worth, is charged with transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce after making the alleged threats during a recorded video call posted on Facebook, TikTok and X on Nov. 23.

“Alokozay posted a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a social media post.

Alokozay was arrested on Nov. 25, McLaughlin said.

Alokozay’s arrest came a day before two West Virginia National Guard members were shot, one fatally, near the White House in Washington, D.C., in what authorities say was an ambush attack. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national who came to the U.S. under a Biden-era program allowing Afghan nationals fleeing the Taliban to enter the country, has been charged with murder in that incident.