An Afghan man arrested in Virginia last week for allegedly providing material support to ISIS previously held a high-level national security position in his former country, The Post has learned.

Jaan Shah Safi was booked in Waynesboro, VA, and branded an “illegal alien terrorist” by the Department of Homeland Security, which announced Dec. 3 he had provided support to ISIS-K and “provided weapons to his father who is a commander of a militia group in Afghanistan.”

What the DHS announcement did not reveal was that Safi, 48, previously served as the deputy director of the National Directorate of Security, the former Afghan government’s version of the CIA, in the province of Nangarhar.

He was among thousands of Afghans who came to the US under the Biden Administration’s Operation Allies We

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