First foreign terrorist removal case in special court stems from Oklahoma 2024 election day plot

On Thursday, The U.S. Department of Justice filed the first case in a special court for immigrants facing terror charges. The case is tied to a foiled 2024 election day mass shooting plot hatched in OKC.

Afghan nationals Nasir Tawhedi and Abdullah Zada were arrested in 2024 for planning to commit a terror attack on election day the same year, from their then-home in Oklahoma City.

The pair pleaded guilty, were convicted and will likely spend the next 15 to 35 years in federal prison.

Now, the DOJ is trying to remove 47-year-old Nazira Zada, mother of Abdullah Zada. She is accused of aiding in the election-day mass shooting plot.

“Zada, the matriarch of an alien Afghan family, is being removed for her role in a plot to commit an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024 for which her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, were previously arrested and convicted,” reads a DOJ press release.

Zada was arrested in Fort Worth last week, but unlike her son and son-in-law, her case was filed with the never before used Alien Terrorist Removal Court in Washington D.C..

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