2026年4月29日 美国东部时间下午2:19 / 美联社
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一名自称伊斯兰国武装分子的男子周三被判共谋罪，罪名成立，涉及2021年美军从阿富汗混乱撤军期间喀布尔机场发生的致命自杀式炸弹袭击案。
穆罕默德·谢里夫乌拉在这起国际恐怖主义案件中一项罪名成立，他最高可被判处20年监禁。唐纳德·特朗普总统去年在国会联席会议演讲中曾提及这起案件。谢里夫乌拉在为期一周的审判中并未出庭作证。
2021年8月26日，美军正在喀布尔机场开展撤离行动，一名自杀式炸弹袭击者在名为修道院门的入口附近引爆自制爆炸装置，此次袭击造成约160名阿富汗人和13名美军士兵死亡。
弗吉尼亚州的联邦陪审团裁定谢里夫乌拉为被称为“伊斯兰国呼罗珊分支”（ISIS-K）的伊斯兰国地区分支提供物质支持。但陪审团未能就机场遇难者“是否由该共谋行为直接导致”这一问题达成一致意见。
如果陪审团就该问题达成一致裁决，谢里夫乌拉原本可能面临终身监禁。
谢里夫乌拉似乎未对判决结果表现出任何明显反应。美国地区法官安东尼·特伦加并未立即确定谢里夫乌拉的量刑日期。
辩方律师劳伦·罗森辩称，检方除了谢里夫乌拉在数小时联邦调查询问中的供述外，未提供任何将谢里夫乌拉与炸弹袭击联系起来的证据。罗森表示，谢里夫乌拉当时只是告诉联邦调查局探员他们想听的内容，可能是因为他在被引渡到美国之前，在巴基斯坦羁押期间遭受了酷刑威胁。
“问题在于，他对当天实际发生的事情知之甚少，”罗森在审判结案陈词中告诉陪审员，“政府从未向你们说明这场袭击究竟是如何发生的。”
美国司法部检察官瑞安·怀特表示，谢里夫乌拉在策划修道院门炸弹袭击中发挥了关键作用，还参与了ISIS-K的其他多起袭击，包括2024年3月莫斯科音乐厅袭击事件，该袭击造成约140人死亡。
“这名被告对杀人毫不在意，”怀特说，“对他而言，这不过是又一个寻常工作日而已。”
美国中央司令部的一份审查报告显示，修道院门炸弹袭击者名为阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼·阿尔-洛加里，是一名伊斯兰国武装分子，曾被塔利班从阿富汗监狱释放。根据联邦调查局的一份宣誓证词，谢里夫乌拉认出这名涉嫌袭击者是他在服刑期间认识的一名同伙。
一名前海军陆战队队员向国会作证称，袭击发生当天上午，他和其他人员发现两名行为可疑的嫌疑人，但未获得采取行动的许可。不过，中央司令部的审查结论指出，狙击手并未发现真正的炸弹袭击者，此次袭击无法避免。
去年，一名负责修道院门案件的检察官被解雇，此前一名右翼评论员就其在乔·拜登民主党政府期间的工作公开对其提出批评。迈克尔·本·阿里被解雇是被视为对特朗普共和党不够忠诚的司法部资深人员大范围清洗行动的一部分。
Afghan man convicted of conspiracy in deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport during US withdrawal
2026-04-29 2:19 PM ET / Associated Press
This courtroom sketch depicts Justice Department prosecutor John Gibbs speaking as defense attorneys Lauren Rosen, Geremy Kamens, from center middle seated, defendant Mohammad Sharifullah, and an interpreter, listen along with Judge Anthony John Trenga during the opening day of the trial for Sharifullah in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, Monday, April 20, 2026. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)
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An alleged Islamic State militant was convicted on Wednesday of a conspiracy charge in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the US military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Mohammad Sharifullah faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after his one-count conviction in an international terrorism case that President Donald Trump heralded last year during a speech to a joint session of Congress. Sharifullah didn’t testify at his weeklong trial.
Approximately 160 Afghans and 13 US service members were killed in the August 26, 2021, attack at the airport, where US troops were conducting an evacuation operation when a lone suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device near an entry point known as Abbey Gate.
A federal jury in Virginia convicted Sharifullah of providing material support to an Islamic State regional branch known as ISIS-K. But the jurors deadlocked on whether any deaths at the airport “resulted from” that conspiracy.
Sharifullah could have faced a possible life sentence if the jury had unanimously decided that question.
Sharifullah didn’t appear to have any visible reaction to the verdict. US District Judge Anthony Trenga didn’t immediately set a date for Sharifullah’s sentencing.
Defense attorney Lauren Rosen argued that prosecutors failed to present any evidence tying Sharifullah to the bombing besides his own words during hours of FBI questioning. Rosen 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 US.
“The problem was, he didn’t know much about what actually happened that day,” Rosen told jurors during the trial’s closing arguments. “The government has told you nothing about how this attack actually happened.”
Justice Department prosecutor Ryan White said Sharifullah played a crucial role in planning the Abbey Gate bombing and was involved in several other attacks by ISIS-K, including its March 2024 attack at a Moscow concert hall that killed roughly 140 people.
“The defendant thought nothing of killing,” White said. “For him, it was just another day at the office.”
A review by US Central Command found that the Abbey Gate bomber was Abdul Rahman al-Logari, an Islamic State group militant who had been released from an Afghan prison by the Taliban. Sharifullah recognized the alleged bomber as an operative he had known while incarcerated, according to an FBI affidavit.
A former Marine testified to Congress that he and others had spotted two possible suspects behaving suspiciously on the morning of the bombing but didn’t get permission to act. However, the Central Command review concluded that the snipers hadn’t seen the actual bomber and that the attack was not preventable.
A prosecutor assigned to the Abbey Gate case was fired last year after a right-wing commentator publicly criticized him over his work during President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration. Michael Ben’Ary’s ouster was part of a broader purge of Justice Department veterans deemed to be insufficiently loyal to Trump, a Republican.
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