Sebastian Gorka, the Director for Counter Terrorism National Security Council, recently shared his account of the capture of the alleged Abbey Gate terrorist, Mohammad Sharifullah.
He stated that former President Donald Trump fulfilled his promise to the families of the 13 U.S. service members who tragically lost their lives in the attack.
The catastrophic evacuation from Afghanistan in 2021, under the Biden-Harris administration, witnessed a suicide bomber claiming the lives of 13 service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians at the Abbey Gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. During a joint address to Congress, Trump announced the arrest of Sharifullah, who was reportedly involved in orchestrating the bombing.
As reported by the Daily Caller, Gorka, who was part of the team responsible for Sharifullah's arrest, was asked by Fox's Jesse Watters to detail the events leading to the capture of the suspected terrorist on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
"We just unleashed the hounds of hell," Gorka revealed. He further explained his role in counterterrorism for Mike Waltz, the former Green Beret National Security Advisor to President Trump. "In my first two weeks, Id been told by the intelligence community, our special operators, that theyve been surveilling bad guys, jihadis across the planet for four years, and the Biden administration just didnt care. We said, Well, we told the president, and he said, find them and kill them.'"
Gorka emphasized his directive to the CIA, NSA, and FBI to locate Sharifullah for Trump and the affected families, either by eliminating him or bringing him "to U.S. soil to face justice."
Gorka expressed his gratitude to the NSA team that discovered a crucial piece of intelligence, which was then provided to the Pakistani government. "The NSA especially, we salute, you know who you are The NSA team that found a certain piece of intelligence. We provided it to the government of Pakistan," Gorka said, thanking Pakistan for apprehending and arresting the suspected terrorist.
Gorka narrated the events that followed, "Then our brave flight team members from the FBI went to Islamabad on Saturday. They interviewed Sharifullah, and he confessed not just to Abbey Gate, but to numerous other ISIS mass murders. We were there on the tarmac with Kash [Patel], Pam [Bondi], Tulsi [Gabbard], John [Radcliffe], with my counterterrorism team and about 100 other agents. It was like a movie. President Trump made the promises to the Abbey Gate 13 families. Last night at 3 a.m. at Dulles Airport, President Trump kept that promise.
A Pakistani intelligence official, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed to ABC News that Pakistani special forces had recently apprehended Sharifullah on the Pakistani-Afghan border and extradited him to the U.S. by Tuesday evening.
When asked about his encounter with the suspected terrorist, Gorka described seeing the pits of hell in Sharifullahs eyes. "I just looked him in the eyes, and I looked into his eyes. I saw the pits of hell. I saw darkness in that mans eyes, the likes of which Id never seen before. I just felt good for the families, Gorka said.
Gorka also mentioned that Trump had privately spoken to the families of the victims before the joint session from the White House. "We gave them just a little bit, a little bit of closure for their loved ones when we brought that walking piece of human filth evil to justice last night, Gorka added.
The handling of the Abbey Gate incident by former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, during their 2024 presidential campaign, drew significant criticism, particularly from the families of the fallen service members. In a September 2024 interview with Fox News, two fathers of the Gold Star service members accused Harris and Biden of "gaslighting" families and neglecting them in the three years following the incident.
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