Kash Patel says the FBI is ‘hunting’ for suspected terrorists after being released twice
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FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that the FBI is “hunting” for suspected terrorists wherever they are hiding after the bureau seized two high-value guns, including an alleged terrorist linked to Iran and a senior member of the Tren de Aragua (TdA).
Patel emphasized the complexity of the transfer outside the custody at the same time to “Hannity” and warned that the FBI is “searching for these people around the world, putting national security first, and ensuring that their exploitation and their terrorist ties are fully revealed,” calling it a priority of the office.
FBI Director Kash Patel praised the agency’s promotion of foreign rendition of two high-profile targets, one from Iraq and one from Colombia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
FBI IS BROUGHT IRAQI MAN ACCUSED OF JOINING NEARLY 20 CRIMINAL ATTACKS IN EUROPE TO TRIAL IN NEW YORK.
Jose Enrique Martinez Flores was extradited from Colombia and Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a suspected Iraqi terrorist, was extradited to New York on terrorism charges.
Flores, also known as “Chuqui,” is suspected of being part of the TdA, according to the US Department of Justice. He is the senior TdA member to face justice in the United States.
He is charged with conspiring to support the TdA with workers, including himself, and with one count of supporting the organization with material.
17 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and members of the gang MS-13, were deported to El Salvador by the US in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 31, 2025. (Office of the President of El Salvador Press/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Patel said Flores was “directly arrested as the highest-ranking member of the Tren de Aragua,” adding that the FBI is trying to “clean up President Biden’s open border policies.”
Al-Saadi and his associates allegedly planned and coordinated 18 attacks on behalf of Ashab al-Yamin, a pro-Iranian Islamist group that has taken credit for attacks on Jewish schools, synagogues and charities in Europe, as well as American, Israeli and Iranian opposition targets, according to the FBI.
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He is conducting “a campaign of targeted attacks across Europe… And he planned directly at the behest of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian terrorist organization, to carry out terrorist attacks in New York, California, and Arizona,” Patel said, citing the lawsuit.
“We are capturing those who were allowed into our country under the corrupt policies of the previous administration and we are stopping those terrorist attacks on American soil,” he added.
“And we will continue to look after every one of these people who wish to harm our way of life and attack our country who came here illegally.”
Fox News Digital’s Robert McGreevy, Louis Casiano and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
