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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