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The FBI paused for a moment last Sunday from the persecution of pro-lifers, parents who attend school board meetings, and Trump supporters to arrest an actual terrorist. Clearly, the agents involved have gone rogue and departed from the Biden-era FBI’s focus on crushing what Old Joe called “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” which emanates, of course, from “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.” But in their little extracurricular excursion back into reality, the feds netted a live one: Mohammad Rafi Mohammadi, an Islamic State (ISIS) operative who was living in Kansas City. Back in Afghanistan, Mohammadi had been a translator for the Department of Defense. And that fact points up a great deal of what is wrong with our entire counterterrorism approach — not that anyone in the FBI or DoD will notice.
The Kansas City Star reported that Mohammadi, “a Kansas City area man,” was “once employed under contract as a translator in Afghanistan for the U.S. Department of Defense,” but is now “accused of lying about his contacts with two recruiters aligned with the ISIS group that was responsible for the bombing of Kabul’s airport in August 2021, which killed 13 American service members.” Mohammadi now “faces one charge in the U.S. District of Kansas of making false statements in reference to obtaining his security clearance, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.”…
