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Turning Point UK
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Tiny ‘Black Lives Matter’ crowd gathers outside the Old Bailey courtrooms to protest the not guilty verdict of the police officer who shot violent criminal Chris Kaba. Kaba rammed his car repeatedly into armed police officers’ cars. BLM is finished in the UK.

Get you up to speed: DOJ asking secretive court to deport Afghan woman allegedly tied to ISIS-linked plot, in first-ever test case

The Justice Department is seeking to deport Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan woman from Fort Worth, Texas, accused of links to a foiled Islamic State-inspired terrorist plot targeting the 2024 election. She is scheduled to appear in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning for evidence presentation regarding her potential removal from the United States.

Nazira Haji Zada’s removal hearing is set for Thursday at 11 a.m. ET, presided over by U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen in Washington, D.C., marking an unprecedented use of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court since its establishment in 1996. Despite being implicated in aiding her son’s plot, Zada has not faced formal terrorism charges and her legal representation remains unconfirmed ahead of the hearing.

The Justice Department is pursuing the deportation of Nazira Haji Zada, alleging her involvement in a foiled terrorist plot linked to her family, with a public hearing set for Thursday in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen will preside over the case, marking the first utilisation of this court since its establishment in 1996.

What remains unclear — It is not specified who may represent Zada at her removal hearing.

DOJ seeks deportation of Afghan woman linked to alleged ISIS plot in historic case

The Justice Department is seeking to convince a federal judge to deport a Texas-based Afghan woman who prosecutors allege is an “alien terrorist,” it revealed Wednesday, in the first-ever test case before a secretive court that has never convened since it was created three decades ago.

Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, will appear Thursday morning in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court in Washington, D.C., where a judge will hear evidence from the Justice Department over whether she should be removed from the United States, according to the Justice Department and court filings. The government is accusing her of links to a foiled Islamic State-inspired terrorist plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024.

“The allegations in this case show the matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot to launch a mass casualty attack on American voters on Election Day,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

Zada has never been publicly charged by the government with any crimes of terrorism, and has no known criminal history, according to the government.

Last year, her son Abdullah Haji Zada and son-in-law Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi each pleaded guilty in a federal court in Oklahoma to purchasing two AK-47 style rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition from an undercover FBI agent as part of an alleged plot targeting the 2024 election in support of the Islamic State.

At the time of his arrest in 2024, Zada’s son was only 17. He was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to gun crimes when he was 18. Tawhedi pleaded guilty to terrorism and gun offenses.

In an unclassified FBI summary filed in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, the government alleged that Zada “supported” her son and son-in-law’s conspiracy. The FBI also alleged she “pledged loyalty to ISIS” and “worked to indoctrinate her children with ISIS ideology,” citing information from a “reliable source.”

“Nazira worked with Tawhedi to radicalize the family and to conceal their pro-ISIS teaching and planned family relocation to ISIS-controlled territory from her unsuspecting husband,” the FBI wrote.

The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created by Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. It was set up to deport noncitizens who could not be removed by the traditional legal process because the information about their cases was classified and could not be made public for national security reasons.

The targets of noncitizen terrorist removal proceedings — including legal permanent residents — are not permitted to review the classified evidence against them, and unlike in criminal proceedings, they are barred from legally challenging how the evidence was collected by the government.

Applications for removal must be certified by the attorney general and are reviewed by the court ex parte and in camera — meaning the target of the deportation proceeding is not a party to the hearing.

If the application is accepted, it moves to the removal stage and a public hearing is conducted. As part of that, the Justice Department also releases an unclassified summary of the case, as it did in a newly created website for the court that was only launched on July 17.

Until July 15, when the Justice Department first filed its removal application against Zada, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court had been a “zombie” court that existed only on paper. It had never been used before, and prior efforts by the Justice Department earlier on after its creation to find a test case failed.

The court is structured similarly to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, another secret court that reviews sensitive requests for surveillance warrants. All five of its judges also sit on the FISC and are appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen, who sits on the federal bench in Minnesota, is the chief judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, and will preside over Zada’s public removal hearing at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., at 11 a.m. ET Thursday.

Zada has a green card, according to publicly unsealed court records. Under the rules of the court, lawful permanent residents are afforded the right to government-appointed counsel  — though that attorney may not share classified evidence with the defendant.

According to court filings, her spouse was employed at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2016, and was granted a green card under a program for Afghans who assisted U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan.

WTX US News could not immediately determine who may represent Zada at her removal hearing on Thursday. 

WTX US News has reached out to the defense attorney who represented her son in his criminal case in the Western District of Oklahoma, where the original case was brought.

Tawhedi and Abdullah Haji Zada were arrested on Oct. 7, 2024, after purchasing the firearms and ammunition from the undercover agent.

Abdullah Haji Zada, who was also a green card-holder like his mother, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In his plea deal, he consented to being deported to Afghanistan after serving his sentence and acknowledged his lawful permanent resident status would be revoked.

Tawhedi, 28, pleaded guilty on June 13, 2025, to conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State.

Both were accused of conspiring to relocate their female and juvenile male family members, including Nazira Zada, to Islamic State-controlled territory in Afghanistan while their alleged Election Day plot was carried out. 

Get you up to speed: ‘My jaw dropped as police found a zombie knife bigger than my arm in pre-Notting Hill Carnival raids’ | News UK

Officers from the WTXpolitan Police conducted multiple dawn raids in Mitcham, Merton, arresting 20 individuals on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs. During the operation, 16 weapons, including a machete and numerous knives, along with a significant amount of Class A and Class B drugs valued at approximately £27,000, were seized.

Twenty people were arrested and 16 weapons, including a machete and several knives, were seized during multiple dawn raids across Mitcham as part of Operation Haldor. The operation, aimed at preventing violence ahead of the Notting Hill Carnival, resulted in the confiscation of Class A and Class B drugs valued at approximately £27,000.

The WTXpolitan Police conducted a series of dawn raids as part of Operation Haldor, resulting in 20 arrests and the seizure of 16 weapons, including a machete. Inspector Kevin Chambers stated, “If we make these arrests now, we can stop people going to Notting Hill Carnival to cause harm,” emphasising that bail conditions will be imposed on those found with knives to enhance safety during the event.

What remains unclear — The police have not disclosed the specific identities of those arrested during the raids.

Police seize zombie knife and weapons in pre-Notting Hill Carnival raids

Police seize zombie knife and weapons in pre-Notting Hill Carnival raids
Police get ready to raid a house in Merton (Picture: w8media)

Outside a south London home with a rose bush in the garden and a freshly painted white fence, police officers drenched in tactical gear wait silently outside.

It is 5am and WTX has joined the WTXpolitan Police in Mitcham, Merton, for a spate of dawn raids across the borough.

You could have heard a pin drop as officers carrying door rammers and glass cutters arrived. They were not needed. In the end, the front door was left unlocked, and nearly 20 officers were able to simply walk in.

But as they entered, ready to arrest a man on suspicion of supplying Class-A drugs, a child could be heard crying for their mum through one of the top-floor windows.

The level of force suddenly seemed crazy, but officers today were preventing further stabbings for tomorrow, specifically Notting Hill Carnival, as part of Operation Haldor.

At a different address around the corner, we watched as a zombie knife as long as my forearm was pulled from between two pillows in a futon where someone was sleeping as officers arrived.

W8media. No credit w8media Merton Police Station feature. Officers from Merton police station. Head out early to carry out multiple raids on properties in the local area. Please see story for more info. 21/07/2026.
A zombie knife was found in one property along with three other knives (Picture: w8media)
METRO Exclusive: Zombie knives already seized as police prepare for Notting Hill Carnival
A machete found in one of the raids for Operation Haldor (Picture: Met Police)
METRO Exclusive: Zombie knives already seized as police prepare for Notting Hill Carnival
Another zombie knife found in the raids (Picture: Met Police)
W8media. No credit w8media Merton Police Station feature. Officers from Merton police station. Head out early to carry out multiple raids on properties in the local area. Please see story for more info. 21/07/2026.
A woman is led away from a property after being arrested (Picture: w8media)

Inspector Kevin Chambers said: ‘If we make these arrests now, we can stop people going to Notting Hill Carnival to cause harm.

‘We are not just looking to get teenagers with a couple of bags of weed – these are exploiters within London gangs.’

Lying on the table next to the futon was a flick knife, left completely out in the open. Two more knives were seized from the property, having been stashed in cupboards.

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One knife even unscrewed at the bottom, which officers said was often used by gang members to hide drugs. It was better than finding them up a perpetrator’s bum, which one officer told me had happened one too many times for his liking.

W8media. No credit w8media Merton Police Station feature. Officers from Merton police station. Head out early to carry out multiple raids on properties in the local area. Please see story for more info. 21/07/2026.
Officers arrive ready to enter people’s homes as they carry out a number of arrests
(Picture: w8media)
METRO Exclusive: Zombie knives already seized as police prepare for Notting Hill Carnival
More knives found in properties which were raided as part of Operation Haldor (Picture: Met Police)

Both a mum and her son were arrested at the property, with family members often being brought into the criminal world together.

Inspector Chambers said: ‘It’s sad to face but a lot of people who are exploited later become the exploiters. Women are no exception.’

In total, 20 people were arrested and 16 weapons were seized, including a machete.

METRO Exclusive: Zombie knives already seized as police prepare for Notting Hill Carnival
One knife which can be unscrewed at the bottom (Picture: Met Police)
METRO Exclusive: Zombie knives already seized as police prepare for Notting Hill Carnival
Drugs were also seized during the raids (Picture: Met Police)

A large quantity of Class A and Class B drugs were also found, with an estimated street value of £27,000.

But it is hoped that these finds will all contribute to making Notting Hill Carnival safer, with bail conditions imposed on those found with knives.

Inspector Chambers said: ‘We like to remind officers to impose these conditions to make the carnival as safe as possible.

‘And if it means the people who we have caught today can’t go, then we have done our job.’

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