| For 2008
Kidnapping of Journo
Najibullah Again Pleads
Not Guilty, Discovery
Questioned
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 15 – Haji Najibullah
was arraigned in November 2020
on charges of having kidnapped
and held hostage American
journalist David Rohde from
November 10, 2008 to July 2009
in Afghanistan, demanding the
release of Taliban prisoners
and money from Rohde's
family.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katherine Polk Failla
held the arraignment. Inner
City Press covered it.
Najibullah had been captured
in Ukraine, and presented
before SDNY Magistrate Judge
Ona T. Wang on October 28,
2020. He was assigned a
Federal Defender, Mark
Gombiner; he was been informed
of his rights of the Due
Process Protections Act.
Jump cut nearly a
year later on October 15,
2021, when Najibullah and
Gombiner appeared again before
Judge Failla. Inner City Press
again covered it. Judge Failla
admonished Gombiner not to
give speeches for the media.
But he argued about the
absurdity of a country bombing
another, then calling the
fight-back a crime. He also
questioned how the US gave
only 200 documents under
discovery.
Judge
Failla said she envisioned a
defense motion to compel and a
CIPA motion from the US, and
urged that the parties confer.
The next conference is
November 18.
It is US v.
Najibullah, 14-cr-401 (Failla)
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