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Russian Taliban fighter pleads not

guilty in US Court
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Published time: November 08, 2014 05:09

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Reuters/Mohammad Ismail
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Russian Taliban fighter first

Afghan War enemy
combatant charged in US
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A suspected Russian Taliban commander

pleaded not guilty in a Virginia courtroom
to terrorism charges for a 2009 attack on
American and Afghan forces. The judge has
set the trial for April 2015.

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Afghanistan, CIA, Military,
Terrorism, USA, Violence,
War

The defendant, Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin, is the first military prisoner from
Afghanistan to appear in a US federal court. A US grand jury indicted
Russian citizen Hamidullin last month on 12 charges of terrorism, and
conspiracy for an attack on an Afghan police base during the war. The
charges include aiding terrorists, attempting to destroy a US military
aircraft, and attempting to kill a US citizen. The defendant was arrested
in November 2009 and held in an unnamed Afghan facility for five
years.

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I am not guilty, Hamidullin told US District Court Judge Henry Hudson

in English, reported Reuters.

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Russian terrorism suspect Irek Hamidullin appears in federal

U.S. court. inside.com/terrorism/u4jd
8:02 AM - 5 Nov 2014

Hudson scheduled a five-day jury trial to start on April 13, 2015. The
defendant faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
READ MORE: Ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg walks free after
7 month custody
The defendant was shackled and stood flanked by US marshals in court.
Hamidullin was a former Russian army officer and tank commander in
the early 1980s before he became a follower of Afghan Taliban leader
Mullah Omar in about 2001, according to the indictment.
He worked alongside the Taliban from 2001 through 2009 and at times
was the main commander of insurgent groups that targeted US
military bases and soldiers.
In a statement from the Justice Departments Office of Public Affairs,
military officials turned Hamidullin over to the FBI on Monday this week
when he was brought to the US to face charges, making him the first
enemy combatant ever to be brought from Afghanistan to face charges

in a civilian court.
READ MORE: Russian Taliban fighter first Afghan War enemy
combatant charged in US court
Congress has barred transfers of terrorism suspects from the prison
complex at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States, but there is no
law blocking transfers for suspects from Afghanistan.
READ MORE: Appeals court says Gitmo detainees can challenge forcefeeding
The US continues to imprison an unknown number of detainees at
secret prisons in Afghanistan, according to the Justice Project Pakistan
group, but an agreement between the American and Afghan
governments means control of those facilities will be turned over to
local authorities effective 2015.
National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan told the
AP the decision to transfer Hamidullin was directly linked to an
impending deadline that will require the US to turn all Afghan prisons
over to local authorities by the end of the year, when Americas combat
operation there formally ends.
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Riba

Let's have trial with American supects oh wait the US does not want that.
an hour ago

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Gordon Paterson

Just want to clear things up here. Is this like the lady pilot from Ukraine who will
be on trial in Russia?
Why cant this guy be tried in Afghanistan where the action happened? US went to
Afghanistan to fight Terrorists and when one fights back and gets caught you go
to jail and get charged and a free trip to the US.
about 3 hours ago

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Andre Kristoffersen

-5

Is it Russia supporting both Taliban and IS as they all fight against US?
about 5 hours ago

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alneimar

+1

actually there are plenty of chechens there, but us support them (even
after beslan)
about 2 hours ago

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+6

Malcolm stark

actually . many ISIS fighters are from UK and USA . If you want to use
that analogy , your maths don't add up
about 3 hours ago

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Gwyllym Suter
Is everybody a Russian bad guy now ? Jeeze!
about 5 hours ago

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+2

D.Sander
No, just the ones commiting crimes.
about 5 hours ago

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