A Gold Star mom whose son was among those killed in the Abbey Gate terror attack insisted Thursday that the newly busted mastermind “needs to be executed.”
Paula Knauss Selph called for the ultimate punishment for Mohammad Sharifullah, the “top terrorist” President Trump announced had finally been captured for the cowardly 2021 airport blast that killed her son, Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, and 12 other US service members during former President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“He is one limb on a tree of wickedness,” the mom said of the ISIS-K terrorist who has allegedly confessed to plotting the blast.
“And if we can take one terrorist off that tree and chop them away, that would be perfect,” Selph told “Fox and Friends First” early Thursday.
“All that needs to be done is to recognize that he needs to be executed,” Selph said of Sharifullah, who was pictured in handcuffs on US soil Wednesday.
“And it is not because I’m a mom and you lost a son, and it’s not an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth — It is simply a national crisis when we allow terrorists to harm Americans here or abroad.”
Selph’s son was one of 13 US service members killed in the suicide bombing outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul during the chaotic pullout of US forces on August 26, 2021 after the Taliban seized power.
Sharifullah has confessed to plotting the airport bombing — which also left some 170 Afghan citizens dead — and scouting a route for the terrorist carrying the bomb, according to the Department of Justice.
Before sharing the news of Shrifullah’s capture during his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Trump had called the families whose loved ones were killed in the attack to share the good news.
Selph said she was not on the phone call with the other families but was “pleased to know that the president keeps his word.”
She praised him for “showing no tolerance for nonsense, especially in the minds of our military and those who we are serving.”
“When we hear that someone who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans is being held accountable, that is a great day,” Selph said.
During the Taliban takeover, thousands of ISIS terrorists were freed from prisons as the Islamic fundamentalists swept across the country.
One of those terrorists, Abdul Rahman al-Logari, wore and detonated a suicide vest stuffed with 20 pounds of explosives and ball bearings at the Kabul airport, according to US military officials.
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