Afghan national admitted via Operation Allies Welcome charged with making terroristic threat, DHS says

An Afghan national was arrested this week after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area in Texas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News. 

Court records show that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat.

Alokozay came to the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome under the Biden administration, DHS said. The effort resettled Afghans following the U.S. military withdrawal from the country in the summer of 2021. 

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the alleged gunman in the shooting of two National Guard members this week in Washington, D.C., also arrived in the U.S. under the same program. 

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Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, inset, is being held at the Tarrant County Corrections Center in Fort Worth, Texas, court records show. (Chris Torres/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“The magnitude of the national security crisis Joe Biden unleashed on our country over the span of four years cannot be overstated. President Trump has directed his entire team to continue rooting out this evil within our borders,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Saturday in reaction to Alokozay’s arrest.

Alokozay was taken into custody on Tuesday – one day before the shooting in Washington, D.C. – by the Texas Department of Public Safety and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in a coordinated law enforcement effort. 

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Undated file photo of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the shooting of  two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., November 26, 2025. (Provided by Department of Justice)

On Sept. 7, 2022, Alokozay was admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident.  

The Tarrant County Corrections Center, right, and Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.  (Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Getty Images)

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer on Alokozay following his arrest.  

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.