2026-09-16 17:49 美国东部时间 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名阿富汗伊斯兰国分支组织成员周三因协助该恐怖组织被判20年监禁。该组织承认对2021年美军从阿富汗混乱撤离期间发生在喀布尔机场的自杀式爆炸袭击负责，此次袭击造成13名美军士兵和约160名阿富汗人死亡。
弗吉尼亚州联邦陪审团于4月认定穆罕默德·谢里夫拉赫为该分支组织（即ISIS-K）提供物质支持的罪名成立，但陪审员无法就他是否应对2021年8月26日的机场爆炸事件承担责任达成一致意见。
美军当时正在机场开展撤离行动，一名自杀式袭击者在被称为“修道院门”的入口附近引爆了自制爆炸装置。检察官表示，谢里夫拉赫在此次袭击中的角色是侦察通往哈米德·卡尔扎伊国际机场的路线。
现年28岁的谢里夫拉赫因一项国际恐怖主义罪名被判处最高刑期，特朗普总统去年在国会联席会议的演讲中曾提及这起案件。谢里夫拉赫于2025年初在巴基斯坦与阿富汗边境附近被巴基斯坦情报部门和中央情报局抓获，并被引渡至美国。
一张由联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔于2025年3月5日发布在社交媒体上的照片显示，2021年修道院门自杀式爆炸袭击嫌疑人穆罕默德·谢里夫拉赫正处于联邦调查局羁押之下。
谢里夫拉赫在庭审中未作证，在美国地区法官安东尼·特伦加宣判前也未向法庭发言。法官称被告是一名“死心塌地的恐怖分子”，对自己造成的“难以估量的”悲痛和苦难毫无悔意。
特伦加听取了多名美军士兵父母的受害者影响陈述。他们在距离谢里夫拉赫座位仅数英尺的讲台轮流发言，缅怀子女的牺牲，并讲述此次袭击如何摧毁了他们的家庭。来自密苏里州的马克·施密茨在谈及自己20岁的儿子、海军陆战队 Lance Cpl. 贾里德·施密茨的生死时，要求谢里夫拉赫转过身看着他。
“他们或许夺走了他的生命，但永远夺不走他的精神遗产，”施密茨说道，“是炸弹杀死了我的儿子，但无法抹杀他所坚守的信念。”
宝拉·克瑙斯-塞尔夫的儿子陆军参谋瑞安·克瑙斯在修道院门爆炸袭击中遇难，她表示这场袭击让这个家庭“永远改变了”。
“再多的正义也无法抚平我破碎的心，”她说道。
谢里夫拉赫请求判处17年监禁，而检察官则主张判处20年。他的律师表示，谢里夫拉赫从未担任过ISIS-K的领导人，也未被认定有与机场自杀式爆炸袭击相关的行为。
“他被引渡至此是因为政府认为他参与了修道院门袭击，但这一指控在庭审中未能得到证实，”辩护律师在一份声明中写道。
检察官在量刑备忘录中表示，“从青少年时期向ISIS-K宣誓效忠起，谢里夫拉赫的暴行就由仇恨驱使——对美国人的仇恨。”
陪审团认定谢里夫拉赫为ISIS-K提供物质支持的罪名成立，但未就机场遇难者是否“因该阴谋而死亡”达成一致裁决。如果陪审团对此问题作出肯定认定，谢里夫拉赫可能面临终身监禁。
美国负责国家安全事务的助理司法部长约翰·艾森伯格周三在一份声明中表示，谢里夫拉赫“近十年间身处一场可怕恐怖行动的核心，为全球针对平民的袭击提供关键支持，并最终导致13名美军士兵和数十人在修道院门袭击中丧生”。
据检察官透露，谢里夫拉赫曾告诉一名记者，他想要“抓捕并杀死来自美国的十字军”，因为美国在2001年9月11日袭击后入侵了他的国家。他们表示，谢里夫拉赫协助实施了数十起其他袭击，包括2024年3月莫斯科音乐厅袭击事件（造成约140人死亡）以及2016年针对喀布尔加拿大使馆保安的自杀式爆炸袭击。
美国司法部称，谢里夫拉赫在这些ISIS-K袭击中的角色包括提供侦察、运送自杀式袭击者或武器，以及与袭击者沟通。
检察官表示，在2021年喀布尔机场爆炸袭击前，谢里夫拉赫侦察了通往机场的路线，以观察塔利班检查站情况。他“向ISIS-K领导层汇报该路线畅通”，数小时后，一名名为阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼·阿尔-洛加里的ISIS-K人员引爆了自杀式炸弹，美国司法部称。
辩护律师辩称，除了谢里夫拉赫在联邦调查局数小时讯问中的供述外，检方未提供任何将谢里夫拉赫与喀布尔爆炸袭击联系起来的证据。其团队表示，谢里夫拉赫告诉联邦调查局特工的是他们想听的内容，可能是因为他在被引渡至美国前在巴基斯坦羁押期间遭受了酷刑。
他的律师在量刑备忘录中还称，谢里夫拉赫并非ISIS-K的领导人，而是“该组织不同行动者之间传递信息的中间人”。
“除了谢里夫拉赫在其家人被以酷刑著称的巴基斯坦当局羁押期间作出的供述外，庭审中没有任何证据将谢里夫拉赫与修道院门袭击联系起来，”他的律师说道。
ISIS-K member sentenced to 20 years in prison in case tied to deadly 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing
2026-09-16 17:49 EDT / CBS/AP
A member of an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization, which took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country.
A federal jury in Virginia had convicted Mohammad Sharifullah in April of providing material support to the affiliate, known as ISIS-K. But jurors could not agree whether he bore some responsibility for the airport bombing on Aug. 26, 2021.
U.S. troops were conducting an evacuation operation at the airport when a lone suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device near an entry point known as Abbey Gate. Sharifullah’s role in the attack was scouting a route to Hamid Karzai International Airport, prosecutors said.
Sharifullah, 28, received the maximum sentence for his one-count conviction in an international terrorism case that President Trump heralded last year during a speech to a joint session of Congress. Sharifullah was captured in early 2025 by Pakistani intelligence and the CIA near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, and was extradited to the United States.
A photo posted to social media by FBI Director Kash Patel on March 5, 2025, shows Mohammad Sharifullah, a suspect in the 2021 Abbey Gate suicide bombing, in FBI custody.
Sharifullah did not testify at his trial and declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga imposed the sentence. The judge said the defendant was a “dedicated terrorist” who expressed no remorse for the “unfathomable” grief and suffering that he had caused.
Trenga heard victim impact statements from several parents of the U.S. service members. From a podium only a few feet from where Sharifullah sat, they took turns paying tribute to their children’s sacrifices and describing how the attack has shattered their families. Mark Schmitz of Missouri asked Sharifullah to turn and look at him as he spoke about the life and death of his 20-year-old son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz.
“They may have taken his life, but they’ll never take his legacy,” Schmitz said. “A bomb killed my son. It did not kill what he stood for.”
Paula Knauss-Selph, whose son, Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, was killed in the Abbey Gate bombing, said the family was “forever changed” by the attack.
“No justice will ever be enough to mend my broken heart,” she said.
Sharifullah requested a 17-year prison sentence, while prosecutors sought 20 years. His lawyers say he was never an ISIS-K leader and has not been convicted of any conduct related to the airport suicide bombing.
“He was brought here because the government believed he participated in the Abbey Gate attack, a theory which it was unable to prove at trial,” defense attorneys wrote.
Prosecutors said in their sentencing memo that “from his teenage years, when he pledged an oath of allegiance to ISIS-K, Sharifullah’s carnage was driven by hate. Hate towards Americans.”
Jurors convicted Sharifullah of providing material support to ISIS-K, but did not reach a unanimous decision on whether any deaths at the airport “resulted from” that conspiracy. Sharifullah could have faced a possible life sentence if the jury had decided that question.
In a statement Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said Sharifullah “spent nearly a decade at the heart of a horrific campaign of terror, providing critical support for attacks against civilians around the world and, ultimately, contributed to the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and dozens of others at Abbey Gate.”
According to prosecutors, Sharifullah told a journalist that he wanted to “catch and kill the crusaders” from the United States for invading his country after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. They said Sharifullah aided in dozens of other attacks, including a March 2024 assault on a Moscow concert hall that killed roughly 140 people, and a 2016 suicide bombing that targeted security guards at the Canadian embassy in Kabul.
His role in those ISIS-K attacks, the Justice Department said, included providing surveillance, transporting suicide bombers or weapons and communicating with attackers.
Ahead of the 2021 Kabul airport bombing, Sharifullah surveilled a route to the airport to watch out for Taliban checkpoints, prosecutors said. He “communicated to ISIS-K leadership that the route was clear,” and hours later, an ISIS-K operative named Abdul Rahman al-Logari detonated the suicide bomb, the Justice Department said.
Defense lawyers argued that prosecutors failed to present any evidence tying Sharifullah to the Kabul bombing besides his own words during hours of FBI questioning. His team said Sharifullah told FBI agents what he thought they wanted to hear, possibly because he was afraid of being tortured in Pakistani custody before he was brought to the U.S.
His lawyers also said in a sentencing memo that Sharifullah was not an ISIS-K leader, but was instead a “conduit for messages passed between different actors in the organization.”
“No evidence at trial linked Mr. Sharifullah to the Abbey Gate attack, besides his own statements made while his family was detained by Pakistani authorities known to torture detainees,” his attorneys said.
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