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Home Front: WoT
Accused Russian Taliban depicted in US court as assault mastermind
2015-08-02
Instead of Guantanamo Bay as a prisoner of war for the duration, the pleasures of an American trial followed by American prison.
[Ynet] Accused Taliban fighter Irek Hamidullin, the first military prisoner from Afghanistan to be tried in US federal court, was portrayed by prosecutors and testimony Friday as the commander behind an attack on U.S. and Afghan forces six years ago near the Pakistain border.

Hamidullin, a former Soviet army officer believed to be in his 50s, faces 15 criminal counts ranging from supporting turbans to firearms offenses stemming from the 2009 assault on Camp Leyza, an Afghan border police base in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
US Army Sergeant Sergio Silva, the prosecution's third witness to take the stand, testified that he saw Hamidullin fire on him and other American and Afghan soldiers during a skirmish with Death Eaters after the initial assault.

Silva added that two Afghan Death Eaters were killed in the firefight and that Hamidullin was maimed and surrendered.
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