A 27-year-old Afghanistan citizen living in Oklahoma City faces charges after he allegedly conspired to conduct a terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS in the U.S. on Election Day.The Department of Justice says Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi wanted to target large groups of Americans on Election Day. The FBI added that Tawhedi’s underage co-conspirator is his wife’s younger brother. Sen. James Lankford told sister station KOCO that he spoke with the FBI throughout the investigation and monthslong effort to stop the Election Day terror plot. A big part of the case was a digital trail, as court documents have pictures of Tawhedi’s social media accounts and chilling text conversations. “We’re a year and a day past when terrorists crossed over a border, killed 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages,” Lankford told KOCO on Tuesday. The U.S. senator was in Oklahoma City to attend a memorial event for local Jews in …
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