Kataib Hezbollah killed three American soldiers at Tower 22 while Biden slept.
Now the FBI just dragged their senior commander out of Iraq and into a Manhattan courtroom.
And when you see what he texted the night he tried to blow up a New York synagogue, you'll understand exactly why Kash Patel calls this his greatest priority.
The Text Message That Says Everything
Mohammad al-Saadi is 32 years old.
He is one of the most senior commanders in Kataib Hezbollah – the Iran-backed militia that killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded 40 more at Tower 22 in Jordan in January 2024.
According to the criminal complaint, al-Saadi had already wired $3,000 in cryptocurrency to a man he believed was a Mexican cartel member willing to bomb a prominent New York synagogue.
Then he sent the text.
"I wanna see good news tonight… not tomorrow bro."
He wasn't overseas watching the news.
https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2055383206271008875?s=20
He was directing the attack in real time – from Iraq, using Snapchat and Telegram, paying a hit man to detonate a bomb at a New York house of worship.
The man on the other end of that text was an FBI undercover agent.
Al-Saadi was arrested in Turkey and brought to New York.
Two Captures. Two Continents. One Message.
The same week, the FBI extradited Jose Enrique Martinez Flores – known as "Chuqui," 24 – from Colombia.
He is the highest-ranking Tren de Aragua member ever brought to justice in the United States, a senior leader in TdA's inner circle charged with terrorism and international cocaine trafficking.
This is the same gang Biden's open border turned loose across American cities.
Patel went on Hannity Monday and made the mission plain.
"We're manhunting these people around the globe, putting national security first, and making sure their exploits and ties to terrorism are fully unraveled," he said.
"We're capturing those that were allowed into our country under the corrupt policies of the prior administration and stopping those terror attacks on American soil," he added.
What Biden Left Behind
Here is what your government knew and did nothing about.
Between October 2023 and November 2024, Iran-backed militias – the same network al-Saadi operated inside – launched more than 180 attacks on U.S. forces across the Middle East, killing American service members and wounding more than 180 others.
Biden froze assets.
Drew lines. Begged them to stop.
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Meanwhile al-Saadi was on Snapchat celebrating bombings and posting calls to "kill everyone who supports America and Israel."
He had personal photographs with Qasem Soleimani.
Experts called him "like the Iranian Jack Ryan" – a senior commander personally connected to every major IRGC leader, running a European terror front targeting synagogues, American financial institutions, and Jewish community organizations across at least three countries.
And then he turned his attention to a New York synagogue and Jewish centers in California and Arizona.
The FBI was watching.
Biden's State Department was not.
The Network Is Still Out There
Patel is not declaring victory.
He is issuing a promise.
"We're going to keep looking for every single one of these individuals who wish to do harm to our way of life and invade our country who got here illegally," he told Hannity.
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That matters because al-Saadi was not a lone wolf.
The same complaint names an entire infrastructure – cells activated across Europe, teenage recruits deployed in Canada, a front organization providing cover for IRGC operations spanning multiple continents.
The FBI got the commander.
The cells are still out there.
And the difference between this administration and the last one is brutally simple.
Biden watched Kataib Hezbollah kill Americans for years and called it de-escalation.
Trump and Patel call it a target list.
Sources:
- Max Bacall, "Patel says FBI is 'manhunting' terror suspects around the globe after two high-value captures," Fox News, May 19, 2026.
- U.S. Department of Justice, Federal terror charges – Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, May 15, 2026.
- U.S. Department of Justice / DEA, "Tren de Aragua Leader Extradited on Terrorism and International Drug Distribution Charges," May 15, 2026.
- White House, "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens," March 2, 2026.
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies, "Kataib Hezbollah Threatens US Bases in the Middle East," January 18, 2026.
