Ex-Taliban commander pleads guilty to taking US journalist hostage
Haji Najibullah was previously charged in 2020 with kidnapping David Rohde, a former Reuters correspondent.
Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah, previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist, appears on charges related to murdering three U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008 during a court hearing in New York, U.S., October 15, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. (photo credit: REUTERS/JANE ROSENBERG)
