The United States has now jailed a key figure in three major terrorist attacks, including the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing targeting US soldiers at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan, killing 13 US military officials and 160 civilians when the United States tried to withdraw from this country.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the Federal Court of Alexandria, Virginia, Mohammad Sharifullah, described as an ISIS-K operative, allegedly admitted his commitment to the FBI agents attacks in an interview after reading him his Miranda rights on Sunday at a non-reveled place.
As part of his service to ISIS-K, Sharifullah allegedly performed surveillance “so he could prepare the suicide bomber and transport him to the target area.”
The bomber later used a “body carried improvised explosion device to carry out the attack,” the complaint said.
Sharifullah claimed to agents that he was sitting in prison in Afghanistan from 2019 until about two weeks before the Abbey Gate attack. It is believed that he was released by the Taliban in the diminishing days as the Afghan Republic crumbled.
Sharifullah also allegedly revealed that he was playing a role in the suicide bombing targeting the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in June 2016, killing 10 embassy guards and wounding other soldiers guarding the Canadian Embassy.
The complaint also claims that Sharifullah played a role in one of the biggest terrorist attacks in recent memory.
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a ceremonial swelling of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s new director of the FBI, Friday 21. February 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room at Eisenhower Executive Office Building at White House Campus in Washington.
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“On March 22, 2024, a group of gunmen joined Isis-K, Crocus City Hall, a popular concert venue complex near Moscow, attacked Russia. The attackers shot several victims of firearms including AK-style rifles and set fire to the building. The attack killed about 130 people.”
Sharifullah is accused of illegally conspiring to provide material support for a designated foreign terrorist organization that results in death.
US officials have told ABC News that Pakistani officials arrested Sharifullah last month and recently transferred him to US officials.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel both posted and said the operation to extradite Sharifullah involved the Ministry of Justice, FBI and CIA.
