Federal prosecutors say a translator hired by the U.S. to work in Afghanistan lied about his contacts with recruiters for the terrorist group behind a notorious bombing that killed 13 American troops in 2021.
Rolling StoneISIS-K, formed in 2015, has clashed with both NATO troops during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and Taliban forces. In its most infamous attack, ISIS-K operatives killed 170 civilians seeking to flee Afghanistan from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International airport during the U.S. withdrawal in a suicide bombing and subseuqent firefight.
The Defense Department deployed Mohammadi to Afghanistan as a contract linguist in October 2019. Unbeknownst to the Pentagon, Mohammadi allegedly had a history of support for an ISIS-K recruiter prior to his travel to Afghanistan. Prosecutors didn’t name the alleged recruiter, but the description of him as the subject of a publicly announced arrest by NDS aligns with Abu Obaidullah Mutawakil, a jihadist preacher arrested in Kabul in February 2019. Mutawakil’s arrest was the only publicly announced arrest of anMohammadi’s relationship with the individual appears to date at least to early January 2018, when the Kansas man Facebook messaged a friend in an attempt to get the recruiter’s phone number.
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