The gate bombing suspect at a major monastery has fled justice for almost four years under President Biden, but the Trump administration prioritized his capture from day one, officials told daily callers.

Mohammad Sharihula (also known as Jafar) was considered one of the orchestrators of a deadly suicide bombing at Kabul Airport as the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in August 2021. Shariffler was able to avoid capture until early March 2025 when President Donald Trump announced in a joint speech to Congress that he was arrested and that he would “facing the swift sword of American justice.”

Trump administration officials said putting Sharifullah’s capture at the top of his to-do list will help him achieve what his predecessor couldn’t do in three and a half years within two months.

President Donald Trump personally directed John Ratcliffe, Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) To prioritize capturing terrorists at the monastery gate, an official familiar with the event told the caller. Ratcliffe Officials allegedly arrested Sharifullah as a “major priority.”

“This is a tier one high-value target that the Biden administration simply didn’t bring justice because it pointed out an embarrassing and devastating failure of the administration,” said Dr Sebastian Gorka, senior director of counterterrorism.

Sharihura has been detained by Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Axios First It has been reported In March. He was suspected of planning a gate bombing of the monastery during Biden’s failed Afghan retreat. (Related: ‘It’s Burche*t’: Marines in the heart of a new Afghan investigation accusing the Pentagon of hiding evidence)

Officials noted that there was a strong will from Pakistan’s intelligence agency and was strongly motivated to work with the CIA to detain Sharihula. Pakistan has arrested a plotter suspected of bombing the monastery’s gates based on information provided by the CIA.

“In the first few days of his appointment, Ratcliffe told CIA anti-terrorist officials to make it a top priority for the agency,” the source explained. “On the second day in the office, the CIA director raised the issue on his first call with Pakistani counterpart, Lieutenant General Asim Malik. Ratcliffe repeated this message in a meeting with Pakistani Spy Chief on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in mid-February.”

Sharifullah supported ISIS-K surveillance efforts to help terrorist groups transport suicide bombings, According to The DOJ affidavit includes scouting potential bombers routes to reach Hamid Karzai International Airport, undetected. As Trump argued in his speech to Congress, he was not “the responsibility of the top terrorists,” but he still played a key role in ensuring that the attack took place to completion. (Related: US military investigations found that bombing at Kabul Airport was contradictory to “unpreventive”.

Gorka told the caller that capturing Sharifullah was at the top of the list on the first day of priorities.

“At the top of the list on the whiteboard, there were hostages and Jaffar,” he said. “41 days later, I didn’t think I was waiting for the tarmac with Pam Bondi.

Last night, FBI officials and DOJ+CIA partners delivered terrorists sought after the gate murder of Afghan monastery at Dulles Airfield.

To terrorists around the world responsible for hurting Americans:

We hunt the edges of the earth and find you. pic.twitter.com/nyxjfkyolx

– FBI Director Kash Patel (@fbidirectorkash) March 5, 2025

Sharihura was detained in Pakistan in April 2024 and reportedly sat in prison for nearly a year when the US arrested him, two Indian government sources told familiar sources Print. According to the India-based outlet, his capture was part of a larger CIA operation starting in the summer of 2024.

“Abby Gate is a fetchless reminder [Biden] The regime that led to the death of our fighters, and you know, the fact that Afghanistan surrendered under their surveillance,” Gorka told the caller.

The suicide bombing at Kabul Airport marked one of the deadliest days of the entire Afghan war.

The Abbey Gate bombing is not the only attack that Sharifullah is said to have been involved in committing.

In March 2024, ISIS-K linked gunmen attacked a concert venue in Russia, killing around 130 people. Sharifullah told special FBI agents he had received an order from a senior ISIS-K leader instructing terrorists on how to operate weapons for attack, the DOJ affidavit pointed out.

ISIS-K also targeted US embassy officials in Kabul, Afghanistan in June 2016 in a suicide bombing. The bombing killed the embassy, ​​civilians and wounded soldiers protecting the Canadian Embassy. According to the DOJ, Sharifullah told special FBI agents that he had transported the bombers to the target location.

For the intelligence news analysts who tracked Sharifullah, his capture was personal. They had friends who had suffered as a result of the bombing of the monastery gates, so Gorka pointed out. (Related: Kabul is reportedly jailed abroad for 11 months before we bothered him arresting him)

“I tracked the filth of this murder onto the plane and took an analyst who was looking into the eyes of this mass murderer,” he said.

Sharihula was handed over to the US and attended a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday, March 13th. A federal judge ruled that there was a cause for the Sharihula terrorist allegation.

If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

“This was three and a half years of personal manhunt,” Gorka emphasized.