The terrorist accused of plotting the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 U.S. navy members and 160 civilians amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan landed on American soil Wednesday.
ISIS-Ok member Mohammad Sharifullah was extradited Tuesday night time to “face American justice,” FBI Director Kash Patel stated.
“3 and 1/2 years later, justice for our 13,” Patel wrote on X.
He’s charged with offering and conspiring to offer materials help and assets to a delegated overseas terrorist group leading to loss of life and was anticipated to make his first federal court docket look in Virginia Wednesday.
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Muhammed Sharifullah, the alleged plotter behind the Abbey Gate bombing throughout the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, is seen Wednesday after he was extradited again to america. (FBI Director Kash Patel)
President Donald Trump introduced Sharifullah’s seize and extradition on Tuesday night time throughout his deal with to a joint session of Congress.
“Three and a half years in the past, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and numerous others within the Abbey Gate bombing,” Trump advised lawmakers and a TV viewers of tens of millions.
“Tonight, I’m happy to announce that we now have simply apprehended the highest terrorist accountable for that atrocity, and he’s proper now on his approach right here to face the swift sword of American justice.”
Sharifullah confessed to scouting the assault route and coaching gunmen concerned in a terrorist assault close to Moscow final yr, in accordance with a Justice Division affidavit.
Abbey Gate was the primary entry level as American and coalition forces had been conducting an evacuation operation at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport.
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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump stands alongside Misty Fuoco, whose sister Sgt. Nicole Gee died in Abbey Gate Bombing, at a wreath laying ceremony on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery on August 26, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
On Aug. 26, 2021, Abdul Rahman al-Logari — a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan Province (ISIS-Ok) — “detonated a body-worn suicide bomb at Abbey Gate, killing 13 U.S. navy service members and roughly 160 civilians,” the Justice Division stated.
The U.S. withdrawal was accomplished a couple of days later, and the Taliban later claimed management of Afghanistan.
FBI Particular Brokers interviewed Sharifullah this week, throughout which he revealed that he was in jail in Afghanistan from 2019 till roughly two weeks earlier than the Abbey Gate assault, the Justice Division stated.
“Upon Sharifullah’s launch, an ISIS-Ok member contacted Sharifullah to rearrange for his help in an upcoming assault,” the affidavit cited Sharifullah as saying in an interview.
Taliban fighters man a checkpoint outdoors Abbey Gate on Aug. 25, 2021, the day earlier than the bombing there. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Occasions/Getty Pictures)
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“ISIS-Ok members offered Sharifullah with a motorbike, funds for a mobile phone and a SIM card, and directions to open an account on a specific social media platform to speak with them throughout the assault operation. After making these preparations for the assault, Sharifullah was tasked with scouting a route close to Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport for an attacker,” the affidavit stated. “Sharifullah carried out surveillance on a route, particularly checking for regulation enforcement and American or Taliban checkpoints.”
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.
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