Mohammad Sharifullah, man allegedly behind Abbey Gate Kabul airport bombing, being extradited to U.S.
U.S. officers instructed CBS Information that Mohammad Sharifullah is being extradited to the U.S. in reference to the August 2021 Abbey Gate suicide bombing on the Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport in Kabul, which killed 13 American service members and about 170 Afghans through the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
A senior Protection Division official mentioned Sharifullah was captured roughly 10 days in the past in a joint raid between Pakistani intelligence and the Central Intelligence Company.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif mentioned in an announcement that the operation was carried out within the Pakistan-Afghan border area.
U.S. officers mentioned Sharifullah was one among two masterminds concerned within the planning of the bombing. He’s described as a regional Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-Okay, commander.
President Trump introduced the arrest at Tuesday’s joint handle to Congress and thanked the Pakistani authorities.
Axios was first to call Sharifullah.
CBS Information spoke with a senior Taliban official who mentioned, “Proper now, we have now two Tajik nationals named Sharifullah in … custody. They’ve been sentenced to long-term imprisonment and have been concerned within the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing … and others assaults.
“We aren’t conscious of any Afghan nationwide named Muhammad Sharifullah. The one people with that title in Kabul are the 2 Tajikistani nationals in our custody.”
In line with the Pentagon, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive system at an entrance to the airport, the place 1000’s of individuals had been gathering day by day as they tried to flee the town after it fell to the Taliban.
Then-President Biden had vowed revenge following the assault, saying, “We is not going to forgive. We is not going to overlook. We’ll hunt you down and make you pay.”
Mr. Trump had fiercely criticized each Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris over how the withdrawal was dealt with whereas on the marketing campaign path. The president once more lambasted his predecessor for the withdrawal throughout Tuesday’s handle to Congress, even claiming it led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Division of Protection in a 2024 overview recognized the bomber as Abdul Rahman al-Logari, who it mentioned was additionally affiliated with ISIS-Okay. That overview upheld earlier findings from the division that the bombing “couldn’t have been preventable on the tactical stage.”
