Ex-Taliban commander pleads not guilty to killing US troops
Al Jazeera
Haji Najibullah, charged in relation to 2008 attack on US troops in Afghanistan, says accusations are ‘incorrect’.
The lawyer for an ex-Taliban commander charged with killing American troops in Afghanistan in 2008 has said it is “preposterous” to charge his client in deaths that occurred in a war the United States started.
Haji Najibullah, 45, pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday to the charges, telling the judge that the “accusations are incorrect”.
US prosecutors announced last week that they were charging Najibullah in relation to a June 2008 attack by Taliban fighters under his command on a US military convoy with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and other explosives.
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