Afghan man convicted of conspiracy in deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport during US withdrawal

An alleged Islamic State radical militant was convicted connected Wednesday of a conspiracy complaint successful a deadly termination bombing astatine a Kabul airdrome during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan successful 2021.

Mohammad Sharifullah faces a maximum situation condemnation of 20 years aft his one-count condemnation successful an planetary coercion lawsuit that President Donald Trump heralded past twelvemonth during a code to a associated league of Congress. Sharifullah didn’t attest astatine his weeklong trial.

ABBEY GATE TERROR SUSPECT REMAINS IN CUSTODY, FACES CHARGES CONNECTED TO DEATHS OF 13 US SERVICE MEMBERS

Muhammed Sharifullah, the alleged plotter of the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 American work members during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, was extradited to the United States connected Wednesday. (Fox News)

Approximately 160 Afghans and 13 U.S. work members were killed successful the Aug. 26, 2021, onslaught astatine the airport, wherever U.S. troops were conducting an evacuation cognition erstwhile a lone termination bomber detonated an improvised explosive instrumentality adjacent an introduction constituent known arsenic Abbey Gate.

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Justice Department authoritative John Gibbs speaks arsenic defence attorneys Lauren Rosen and Geremy Kamens, suspect Mohammad Sharifullah, an interpreter, and Judge Anthony John Trenga perceive during the opening time of Sharifullah's proceedings successful national tribunal successful Alexandria, Va., connected April 20, 2026. (Dana Verkouteren/AP)

A national assemblage successful Virginia convicted Sharifullah of providing worldly enactment to an Islamic State determination subdivision known arsenic ISIS-K. But the jurors deadlocked connected whether immoderate deaths astatine the airdrome "resulted from" that conspiracy. Sharifullah could person faced a imaginable beingness condemnation if the assemblage had unanimously decided that question.

Sharifullah didn't look to person immoderate disposable absorption to the verdict. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga didn't instantly acceptable a day for Sharifullah's sentencing.

Taliban fighters antheral a checkpoint extracurricular Abbey Gate successful Afghanistan connected Aug. 25, 2021, the time earlier a bombing occurred there. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

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Defense lawyer Lauren Rosen argued that prosecutors failed to contiguous immoderate grounds tying Sharifullah to the bombing too his ain words during hours of FBI questioning. Rosen said Sharifullah told FBI agents what helium thought they wanted to hear, perchance due to the fact that helium was acrophobic of being tortured successful Pakistani custody earlier helium was brought to the U.S.