President Donald Trump announced during his speech to Congress that the United States has arrested the terrorist allegedly responsible for the suicide bombing that killed thirteen American service members and dozens of civilians amid the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Mohammad Sharifullah, a member of the terrorist organization ISIS-K, was brought to the United States to face charges related to his alleged involvement in the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where thousands of civilians were gathered at the Abbey Gate for evacuation as the Taliban was swiftly retaking the country.
Trump said in his speech, which was his first joint address to Congress for his second term, that he was “pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were photographed meeting Sharifullah at the airport as he arrived.
Bondi vowed that the Justice Department will “ensure that terrorists like Mohammad Sharifullah have no safe haven, no second chances, and no worse enemy than the United States of America.” Patel added that the FBI will “hunt down those who viciously murdered our warriors.”
Sharifullah has been charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death. The detainee admitted to the FBI that he indeed helped to prepare for the attack and scouted a route for the suicide bomber.
American military assets withdrew from Afghanistan four years ago under the leadership of now-former President Joe Biden, after which the national government of the South Asian country collapsed and the Taliban rose to power. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed last week that the Pentagon is conducting a complete review of the Afghanistan withdrawal failure.
Sharifullah also admitted to helping ISIS-K execute other attacks, such as teaching a group of ISIS-K terrorists how to utilize AK-style weapons that they used to kill civilians in Russia.