A former Taliban commander has been charged by the U.S. prosecutors on Thursday with terrorism-related offenses over the killing of American soldiers in 2008.
Haji Najibullah, 45, was captured and removed from Ukraine to the United States in October 2020. He is accused of seizing an American columnist and two Afghan regular people.
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The former Taliban commander is detained in U.S. custody as he faces the critical charges leveled against him.
Prosecutors in New York said on Thursday that they had recorded a supplanting arraignment that additional counts of homicide to the charges he faces.
Taliban warriors under Najibullah’s order killed three U.S. officers and an Afghan translator in an assault on their tactical escort in June 2008, the Justice Department said.
Government prosecutors from the Southern District of New York said the attack was made with ad lad-libbedchy gadgets, rocket-pushed explosives, and programmed weapons.
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Najibullah is additionally blamed for hijacking an American writer and two Afghan nationals and holding them prisoner for quite a long time.
The Justice Department has not given the names of those captured, however, New York Times columnist David Rohde was abducted in Afghanistan in November 2008, alongside an interpreter and driver.
Rohde got away from his detainers in June 2009. Although, the Times stayed quiet so as not to imperil him.
Ten of the 13 counts Najibullah faces convey the most extreme sentences of life in jail.
American soldiers pulled out from Afghanistan in August following 20 years of war finished with the Taliban back in power.
The U.S. government was thereafter engaged with the clearing of individuals from Afghanistan. The individuals who escaped the nation have been gotten in a few nations across the world including a few nations of Africa.
Presently, the Taliban are supposed to dole out Islamic laws confining particularly ladies from taking proper positions and carrying on with a western way of life.
