WEA suspected senior organizer in Ashington – Suicide bombing at Kabul Airport Chaotic U.S. During the murder of 13 American service members Withdrawal from Afghanistan President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed the arrest on Wednesday and said that the suspect was caught in the country The province of resistant southwestern Balochistan Near the border of Afghanistan after multiple operations failed to capture it.
Trump, in a joint address to Congress, said he was “pleased to announce that we have caught the top terrorist responsible for that oppression.
The White House referred to the man as Muhammad Sharifulla and orchest the “Abbey Gate Attack.” As described as. FBI director Kash Patel, who participated in Trump’s address, posted on Social Media Platform X that the arrested “these American heroes and their families are close to justice for justice.”
In the horrific August Gust 2021 attack, two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a gang of Afghans at Kabul’s airport in the poor days of Airlift for those fleeing from the Taliban takeover of the country.
Abbey Gate bombed during the last days of 13 members of the US service were killed by Afghanistan withdrawal And 170 Afghans, when wounded. It was widely criticized by the Congress and weakened people’s trust in the administration of Biden.
A senior US official said that Sharifullah, also known as Jafar, was arrested by Pakistani officials late last month on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Implemented US law, including the FBI, questioned it over the weekend.
During the interrogation, the official said that the suspect confessed to his role in the attack – the Airport Gate where he happened, then known as AB Gate Attack – and the attack on March 2024 in Moscow was also carried out by the Islamic State Group’s ancillary. Islamic State Khorasan province or isis-kAnd many attacks within Iran.
It could not be clear immediately what the charge of Sharifullah would take. Speaking on the condition of anonymity before being unveiled against Sharifullah, a US official, said on condition of anonymity, saying that charging documents would be unsolved on Wednesday. They are in the U.S. He was in transit while Trump was speaking late Tuesday night.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said that Sharifulla joined the terrorist group in 2016 and joined more than 20 attacks in Afghanistan.
He was arrested by the US -backed Afghan government in 2019 at that time, but escaped from jail on August 15, 2021, carrying the Taliban Kabul.
Pakistani officials said that Sharifulla plans to bomb the back of the jail with other senior terrorist figures. They added, “It fled to the border areas of Balochistan until its arrest by joint intelligence distribution between Pakistan and the US.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked Trump for “accepting and appreciating” the country’s role in terrorism efforts in Afghanistan.
“We will continue to partner with the United States to gain regional peace and stability,” Sharif said on Social Platform X.
From Kabul, Taliban’s chief spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid shows a “shelter and established shelters” within Pakistan’s “on Pakistan” of a member of an Afghan national and Islamic State Group.
Mujahid said, “The issue has nothing to do with Afghanistan. The regional Islamic state is a rival group of Afghan Taliban.
The Justice Department did not immediately return an email to ask for a comment
US In the review last year by the Central Command it was concluded. Suicide bombs cannot be stopped. US The military had earlier identified the bomber as Abdul Rahman al-Logari, a terrorist of the Islamic state, who was in Afghan jail, but was released by the Taliban because the group occupied the country in that summer.
Trump repeatedly condemned Biden’s role in withdrawing Afghanistan on the trail of the campaign and blamed Biden for AB Gate Attack. The official said that the arrest of Sharifullah was fresh in the U.S. The intelligence community has come after coordination, the distribution of intelligence has increased and has increased the pressure on regional partners to make people responsible for the attack since Trump’s oath.
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