The United States now has a key figure in three great terrorist attacks, including the mortal suicide bombing of August 2021 aimed at US soldiers in Abbey Gate in Afghanistan who killed 13 US military members and 160 civilians while the United States sought to retire from that country.
According to a criminal complaint filed in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, Mohammad Sharifullah, described as an ISIS-K agent, allegedly admitted his participation in the attacks on FBI agents in an interview after reading his Miranda rights on Sunday in a unzirped location.
As part of its service to ISIS-K, Sharifullah supposedly made surveillance “to be able to prepare the suicide bomber and transport it to the target area.”
The bomber then used an “improvised explosive device with the body to perform the attack,” the complaint said.
Sharifullah told the agents that he was in prison in Afghanistan from 2019 to approximately two weeks before Abbey Gate’s attack. It is believed that he was released by the Taliban in the waning days when the Afghan Republic collapsed.
Sharifulla also revealed that he played a role in the suicide bombing aimed at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in June 2016 that killed 10 guards from the embassy and wounded other soldiers who close the Canadian embassy.
The complaint also states that Sharifullah played a role in one of the greatest terrorist attacks in recent memory.
The attorney general Pam Bondi speaks during a ceremonial sweating of Kash Patel, the new director of President Donald Trump of the FBI, on Friday, February 21, 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room in the building of the Eisenhower Executive Office on the White House campus in Washington.
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“On March 22, 2024, a group of armed men affiliated with the City Council of Crocus Crocus attacked Crocus, a popular concert room complex near Moscow, Russia. The attackers fired numerous victims with firearms that include AK style rifles and set fire to the building. The attack killed approximately 130 people.”
Sharifullah is accused of conspiring illegally to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization that results in death.
American officials told ABC News that Pakistani officials arrested Sharifullah last month and recently delivered him to US officials.
The attorney general Pam Bondi and the director of the FBI Kash Patel published, saying that the operation to extradite Sharifullah involved the Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA.
