During President Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress, he dropped a bombshell of an announcement that no one saw coming. American and Pakistani authorities reportedly captured ISIS-K terrorist Mohammad Sharifullah, also known as Jafar, who allegedly plotted the Abbey Gate terrorist bombing in August 2021 that took 13 American lives.
“Tonight, I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice. And I want to thank especially the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster,” Trump announced. “This was a very momentous day for those 13 families, who I actually got to know very well, most of them, whose children were murdered… What a horrible day.”
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It brought tears of relief to the Gold Star families of the Americans slaughtered in the Afghanistan terrorist attack carried out at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul by ISIS-K during former President Biden’s botched withdrawal.
Terrorist in the Crosshairs
Sharifullah is said to have been the architect of multiple ISIS massacres. Trump wasted no time in announcing charges against him and asserting that the Islamic terrorist was being transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia to face charges.
According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, a White House official stated that Trump’s National Security Council “prioritized finding this individual on day one.”
“Through increased interagency coordination and intelligence sharing with regional partners in recent weeks, Pakistani officials were [able] to find him,” the White House official said. Sharifullah “was extradited and landed in the U.S. early this morning to face justice for his crime,” the official added.
Sharifullah is not shy about his bloody work. A DOJ affidavit notes that he has admitted that he was involved in the Kabul attack, as well as a 2016 attack on a Canadian embassy that killed 13 embassy guards that were mistakenly thought to be Americans, and then another one in 2024 carried out in Moscow, Russia, that killed 137 people and wounded 180.
The bombing in Afghanistan happened while the U.S. military was evacuating Americans and Afghans from the region as the country fell into the wretched hands of the Taliban, thanks to Biden and his cowardly cohorts. Thirteen U.S. service members died in the attack, as did 170 Afghan civilians.
Those Who Gave Their All – Forgotten by Biden
Biden forgot our military heroes and the people in Afghanistan. As many as 9,000 Americans were left behind. Many of those who survived and got out had to do so on their own.
As Biden ordered our military to flee the country, he left over $7 billion worth of military equipment for the terrorists to utilize. He also is said to have gifted the Taliban with millions of dollars through foreign aid programs. Those are the same programs that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has targeted.
The service members that died that day saving others included eleven Marines, one Navy corpsman, and one soldier. While Biden forgot them, Americans did not, and neither did President Trump
Marine Corps:
- Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, assigned to 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Naval Support Activity Bahrain.
- Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, of Sacramento, California, assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
- Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, California, a rifleman.
- Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska, a rifleman.
- Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana, a rifleman.
- Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas, a rifleman.
- Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Missouri, a rifleman.
- Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyoming, a rifleman.
- Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, California, a rifleman.
- Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, California.
Navy:
- Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio, assigned to 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California.
Army:
- Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tennessee. Knauss was assigned to the 9th PSYOP Battalion, 8th PSYOP Group, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
Trump Team Takes Terrorist Into Custody
FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were at the airport when Sharifullah landed.
Patel posted on X, “That time you delivered the sword of justice for the American people–thank you for your incredible leadership @AGPamBondi and @JohnRatcliff. So proud of the men and women of the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. Justice for [Abbey] Gate–terrorist Jafar officially in US custody.”
“The lethal attack that killed 13 American service members and Afghan civilians during the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was an act of terrorism,” Patel said in a statement.
“ISIS-K brazenly claimed responsibility for the carnage. Now, thanks to the assistance of the FBI, Department of Justice, and the CIA, we have secured Sharifullah’s apprehension and transport to the U.S. to face American justice,” he added. “The FBI will never forget the loss of these American heroes. We will continue to hunt down those who viciously murdered our warriors. We will find all responsible and bring them to justice.”
Bondi stated, “Under President Trump’s strong leadership on the world stage, this Department of Justice will ensure that terrorists like Mohammad Sharifullah have no safe haven, no second chances, and no worse enemy than the United States of America.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif issued a statement on X, “We thank US President Donald Trump for acknowledging and appreciating Pakistan’s role and support in counter terrorism efforts across the region, in the context of Pakistan Security Forces’ recent apprehension of ISKP’s top tier operational commander Shareefullah, who is an Afghanistan National.”
“The wanted terrorist was apprehended in a successful operation conducted in Pakistan-Afghan border region,” he noted.
He added, “We remain steadfast in our resolve and unwavering commitment to combating terrorism, in all its forms and manifestation.”
Confessions of an Islamic Monster
Sharifullah told the FBI that he had “conducted surveillance” near the airport to inform other ISIS-K members when and where to send a suicide bomber.
If he is convicted of providing and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists resulting in death, Sharifullah could face life in prison or, better yet, the death penalty. Additional charges are also a possibility.
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Taliban Shifts Blame
According to the Army Times, “From Kabul, the Taliban chief spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid declined to comment beyond saying that the arrest ‘on Pakistani soil’ of an Afghan national and member of the Islamic State group shows that IS group figures ‘have taken refuge and established havens’ inside Pakistan.
“This issue has nothing to do with Afghanistan,” Mujahid predictably said. The regional Islamic State affiliate is a rival group to the Afghan Taliban, but it should be pointed out that they are ALL Islamic terrorists.
Trump Reaches Out to Gold Star Families
Before President Trump’s address to Congress and the announcement of Sharifullah’s arrest, he said he called the family members of the victims of the Kabul attack personally to inform them.
“Everybody was on the line, and they did nothing but cry with happiness,” he told Congress as Democrats sat on their hands and refused to applaud, tacitly condoning terrorism and murder. “They were very happy, as happy as you can be under those circumstances.”
“This was the best news yesterday! We got a phone call earlier in the day from President Trump telling us the great news,” Gold Star dad Darin Hoover, the father of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, texted according to the New York Post.
“Joy and relief that FINALLY someone was going to be held accountable for killing our kids,” he continued. “We begged for three years for this to happen, and it didn’t. President Trump has said all along that when he got back to the White House, people would start to be held accountable. Promises made, Promises kept. And it was all done [in] less than 40 days.”
Cheryl Jules, who is the aunt of Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee said the Gold Star families were “crying” when they heard the news Tuesday.
“To get that news, it floored us. We were all crying. We had no expectations of that at all. It just made it even more real,” she stated.
It’s obvious that Trump gets results, and he relishes hunting down Islamic monsters who murder Americans.
