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Kabul Airport Bombing Suspect in Custody, Arrives in US: Patel

by Sandra Rhodes
March 5, 2025 at 1:15 pm
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Kabul Airport Bombing Suspect in Custody, Arrives in US: Patel

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 21: New Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel speaks after he was sworn in during a ceremony in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Patel was confirmed by the Senate 51-49, with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) the only Republicans voting to oppose him. Patel was confirmed despite being a hard-line critic of the FBI, the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Mohammad Sharifullah, the alleged Kabul airport bombing mastermind, arrived in the U.S. on Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel said on X.

“On the ground last night at Dulles airfield as FBI personnel and our DOJ + CIA partners delivered a terrorist wanted for the Afghanistan Abbey Gate murders,” Patel wrote in a Wednesday statement.

Sharifullah will face charges involving creating a plot that killed 13 American service members and about 170 Afghan civilians, per The Hill.  

“To terrorists around the world responsible for harming Americans: We will hunt the ends of the earth and find you,” he said. 

On the ground last night at Dulles airfield as FBI personnel and our DOJ + CIA partners delivered a terrorist wanted for the Afghanistan Abbey Gate murders.

To terrorists around the world responsible for harming Americans:

We will hunt the ends of the earth and find you. pic.twitter.com/NyxjfKyOlx

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) March 5, 2025

Sharifullah is charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization resulting in death. The attack happened as the U.S. was withdrawing from Afghanistan. 

He is expected to go before the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday. 

According to authorities, Sharifullah admitted he planned the ISIS-K attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

A suicide bomber set off a body-worn explosive at Abbey Gate in August 2021.

.@MikeWaltz47 on apprehension of Mohammad Sharifullah, charged with killing of U.S. military Sservice members at Abbey Gate, Afghanistan: "He landed overnight. The President was – it was emotional but he was thrilled to be able to call those families and say this monster is going… pic.twitter.com/7bTXu8FKj5

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 5, 2025

“The lethal attack that killed 13 American service members and Afghan civilians during the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was an act of terrorism,” Patel said in a statement. 

“ISIS-K brazenly claimed responsibility for the carnage. Now thanks to the assistance of the FBI, Department of Justice, and the CIA, we have secured Sharifullah’s vapprehension and transport to the U.S. to face American justice,” he added.

“The charges announced today carry an unmistakable message: the commitment of the United States to hold accountable all who facilitate and carry out acts of terror against us will never waver,” said U.S. Attorney Erik S Siebert for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement. “Our message to those who have been impacted by these horrific crimes is that you are not forgotten. We will continue to pursue justice no matter how long or how far it takes us.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the charges show that terrorists have “no safe haven, no second chances, and no worse enemy than the United States of America.”

Sharifullah faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted, per The Hill.

Tags: Abbey Gate murdersAfghanistanCourtFBIKash PatelMohammad Sharifullahpoliticsworld news
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IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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