The Daily Wire obtained a chilling photo showing a stone-faced woman wrapped in a hijab whom the Trump administration deported after she planned to carry out an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on Election Day in 2024.
Afghan national Nazira Haji Zada, 47, plotted to carry out the mass shooting attack alongside her son and son-in-law, who have both been arrested and convicted, according to the Justice Department. Zada, who resided in Fort Worth, Texas, admitted to being an alien terrorist and waived her right to appeal her deportation order, resulting in the termination of her immigration status.
Zada’s case was the first to go before the secretive Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), which Congress established in 1996.
“From the moment President Trump took office, he made clear that his Administration would put the safety and security of the American people first,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement regarding the case.
He continued: “The President’s direction to use the Alien Terrorist Removal Court to expel Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan national who plotted with members of her family to carry out an ISIS-inspired attack on American soil, delivers on that promise. Thanks to the President’s leadership and the coordinated efforts of the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State, Nazira Haji Zada’s final order of removal is now FINAL. Those who plot acts of terrorism against the United States have no place in our country. We will find them, and we will remove them.”
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The ATRC issued a deportation order for Zada on August 20, which was unsealed last Friday following her removal from the United States.
Before Zada’s admission to being a terrorist, federal prosecutors used classified information to prove that Zada was an “alien terrorist,” according to the Justice Department. In doing so, they provided the terrorist and her legal team “approximately half a terabyte of documents.”
Zada’s 17-year-old son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and her 28-year-old son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, were arrested on October 7, 2024, after stocking up on firearms and ammunition they planned to use in the attack, federal authorities said. Abdullah entered a guilty plea as an adult and received a 15-year prison sentence.
As part of the plea, Zada’s son agreed to be deported to Afghanistan following his prison term.
Tawhedi pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive firearms and ammunition in furtherance of a federal crime of terrorism. He has yet to be sentenced.
Tawhedi said he worked with at least one other individual between June 2024 and October 2024 to purchase two AK-47 rifles, 500 rounds of ammunition, and 10 magazines, with the intent to carry out the mass shooting on behalf of ISIS, according to court documents.
Tawhedi communicated with an ISIS facilitator about the plot, asking the unnamed terrorist whether the 500 rounds of ammunition would be sufficient to carry out the attack.
In 2024, the family began selling furniture, computers, a cell phone, and two cars to fund their attack, the Justice Department said. Zada signed a contract to sell off the family’s home.
The terrorist family members purchased one-way airline tickets to Kabul, Afghanistan, before Election Day for Zada and other children.
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