A report by Just The News lays out that “lost in the headlines that an Afghan refugee admitted into the U.S. by the Biden-Harris administration was plotting an Election Day terror attack for ISIS was a troubling revelation: the adult defendant allegedly had a 17-year-old accomplice.”
As a result of the information, Oklahoma school officials are now scrambling to determine the activities, ties and motives of that student who attended classes virtually in the Moore school district just outside Oklahoma City.
“There’s a co-conspirator here that was actually a student in a public school here in Oklahoma City that was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday. So you’ve got a terrorist in a public school,” Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told the “Just the News, No Noise” television show Thursday night.
Walters and other authorities declined to release the name of the student because he is a juvenile but he attended the Southmoore High School, taking classes online, according to a letter sent to parents in the school district and obtained by Just the News.
Prosecutors alleged that Tawhedi and the 17-year-old co-conspirator sold their family’s personal property on Facebook and then met Oct. 7 with an FBI asset in rural Oklahoma to try and purchase two AK-47 assault rifles, 10 magazines and 500 rounds of ammunition to further the terror plot.
“Our investigators are working very closely here at the State Department with the FBI, with Homeland Security and with DPS to track all of this down,” Walters said on the Thursday edition of the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “What have we heard? We have seen schools that have preached radicalism against America.”
While the student attended classes virtually, Walters said they are trying to figure out how often he was on campus and if other students have been radicalized.
“We’re trying to kind of get to the bottom of how often the kid was on campus,” he said. “But again, it was part of the refugee program here, and was arrested by the FBI as a conspirator there.”
