Feds charge Afghan national living in Fort Worth with suicide car bomb threat
Federal prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old citizen of Afghanistan who lives in Fort Worth with threatening in a TikTok video to build a car bomb and conduct a suicide attack.
Mohammad Alokozay said in the Nov. 23 video that he would construct a bomb in his vehicle in Fort Worth and referred to a particular yellow cooking oil container that was favored by the Taliban in building improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, according to the FBI.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas charged Alokozay, who works in Haslet, with the offense of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce.
The video shows Alokozay angrily gesturing and speaking Dari while interacting with at least two other people on a video call, according to an FBI special agent’s affidavit in support of a criminal complaint.
The video call was recorded and posted to multiple social media accounts. It was shared on TikTok, X and Facebook, authorities said.
The complaint alleges that Alokozay threatened the other people on the call as well as “infidels” and Americans. Alozokay also stated that the Taliban were dear to him, and that he was not afraid of deportation or getting killed, according to the complaint.
The Texas Department of Public Safety analyzed the video and, using facial recognition technology, identified Alokozay’s driver license photograph as a likely match. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles records indicated Alokozay maintained a residence in Fort Worth and had registered at least two vehicles in Texas.
Alokozay is in custody pending an initial appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge.
“This Afghan national came into America during the Biden administration and as alleged, explicitly stated that he came here in order to kill American citizens,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote in a statement distributed to the press.
Alokozay was arrested on Nov. 25, the day before a gunman, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, shot two members of the National Guard stationed in Washington, D.C.
Fort Worth police officers assisted the FBI with Alokozay’s arrest near the suspect’s apartment in the 2700 block of Dondo Court.
If convicted of the federal charge, Alokozay faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
He also has been charged by the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office with making a terroristic threat with the intent to place the public in fear of serious bodily injury, which is a third-degree felony under Texas law and punishable by two to 10 years in prison.
Alokozay is being held in the Tarrant County Jail, and a state district court ordered that he be denied bail, according to court records.
This story was originally published December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM.
