Historic weekend for Trump: He took down the leader of ISIS and extradited two bosses from the Tren de Aragua and Hezbollah.

The Justice Department of President Donald Trump's government announced on Friday the arrest of a high-ranking member of the Iraqi terrorist group Kataib Hezbollah, accusing him of planning attacks in the United States, Canada, and Europe against Jewish targets.

The FBI director, Kash Patel, identified the suspect as Mohammed Baqir Saad Dawood al-Saadi and described him as a senior commander of the Iran-funded militia. Kataib Hezbollah is formally classified by Washington as a terrorist organization, and the group itself has acknowledged its authorship of drone and missile attacks directed at bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and throughout the Middle East.

Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi citizen, was transferred to the United States on Friday, where he appeared before a federal judge in New York. He is charged with six terrorism-related offenses and was ordered to be held in pretrial detention. Prosecutors attributed responsibility for at least 18 terrorist attacks in Europe and two attacks in Canada to him.

The prosecution also accused Saadi of providing an undercover agent with photographs and maps identifying the location of a major synagogue in New York, along with two other Jewish institutions in Los Angeles and the city of Scottsdale in Arizona. According to the investigation, he planned to use an improvised explosive device in the attack against the New York synagogue.

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Saadi met the same fate as José Enrique Martínez Flores, a high-ranking member of the criminal gang Tren de Aragua who was also extradited to the United States to stand trial in an American court. Flores is accused of overseeing drug trafficking, extortion, prostitution networks, and murders for the Venezuelan-origin criminal organization.

In total, 260 individuals linked to Tren de Aragua have been arrested on U.S. soil since Trump returned to the presidency. Many of these criminals were allowed into the country by former President Joe Biden due to his open border policy.

The historic weekend for Trump was completed with an announcement from the president himself on Friday night. On his Truth Social network, the Republican leader announced that a complex operation carried out jointly by U.S. and Nigerian forces took down Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, considered the most active terrorist in the world and who served as the second-in-command of ISIS globally.