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The violent accused of plotting the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 U.S. subject members and 160 civilians amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan landed connected American ungraded Wednesday.
ISIS-K member Mohammad Sharifullah was extradited Tuesday nighttime to "face American justice," FBI Director Kash Patel said.
"3 and 1/2 years later, justness for our 13," Patel wrote connected X.
He is charged with providing and conspiring to supply material enactment and resources to a designated overseas violent enactment resulting successful decease and was expected to marque his archetypal national tribunal quality successful Virginia Wednesday.
Muhammed Sharifullah, the alleged plotter down the Abbey Gate bombing during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, is seen Wednesday aft helium was extradited backmost to the United States. (FBI Director Kash Patel)
President Donald Trump announced Sharifullah’s seizure and extradition on Tuesday nighttime during his code to a associated league of Congress.
"Three and a fractional years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American work members and countless others successful the Abbey Gate bombing," Trump told lawmakers and a TV assemblage of millions.
"Tonight, I americium pleased to denote that we person conscionable apprehended the apical violent liable for that atrocity, and helium is close present connected his mode present to look the swift sword of American justice."
Sharifullah confessed to scouting the onslaught way and grooming gunmen progressive successful a violent onslaught adjacent Moscow past year, according to a Justice Department affidavit.
Abbey Gate was the main introduction constituent arsenic American and conjugation forces were conducting an evacuation cognition astatine Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump stands alongside Misty Fuoco, whose sister Sgt. Nicole Gee died successful Abbey Gate Bombing, astatine a wreath laying ceremonial astatine the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier astatine Arlington National Cemetery connected August 26, 2024 successful Arlington, Virginia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
On Aug. 26, 2021, Abdul Rahman al-Logari — a subordinate of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) — "detonated a body-worn termination weaponry astatine Abbey Gate, sidesplitting 13 U.S. subject work members and astir 160 civilians," the Justice Department said.
The U.S. withdrawal was completed a fewer days later, and the Taliban aboriginal claimed power of Afghanistan.
FBI Special Agents interviewed Sharifullah this week, during which helium revealed that helium was successful situation successful Afghanistan from 2019 until astir 2 weeks earlier the Abbey Gate attack, the Justice Department said.
"Upon Sharifullah’s release, an ISIS-K subordinate contacted Sharifullah to put for his assistance successful an upcoming attack," the affidavit cited Sharifullah arsenic saying successful an interview.
Taliban fighters antheral a checkpoint extracurricular Abbey Gate connected Aug. 25, 2021, the time earlier the bombing there. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
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"ISIS-K members provided Sharifullah with a motorcycle, funds for a compartment telephone and a SIM card, and instructions to unfastened an relationship connected a peculiar societal media level to pass with them during the onslaught operation. After making these preparations for the attack, Sharifullah was tasked with scouting a way near Hamid Karzai International Airport for an attacker," the affidavit said. "Sharifullah conducted surveillance connected a route, specifically checking for instrumentality enforcement and American oregon Taliban checkpoints."
Fox News Digital's Greg Norman contributed to this report.
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