US charges former Taliban commander with killing American troops
Fox News
Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah is facing terrorism-related charges for actions in Afghanistan from about 2007 to 2009.
Court documents reveal the 45-year-old Afghan national was previously charged in a 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist, with the new indictment charging him with attacks on a U.S. military convoy that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. Army soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in June of 2008.
Najibullah is also charged with an October attack that same year in which a U.S. military helicopter was shot down.
"As alleged, during one of the most dangerous periods of the conflict in Afghanistan, Haji Najibullah led a vicious band of Taliban insurgents who terrorized part of Afghanistan and attacked U.S. troops," said U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York. "Najibullah will answer for his heinous acts in an American courtroom."