Afghan authorities have arrested an Afghan supreme court judge in connection with an August car bomb attack that killed ten people, including three Americans, outside a US security firm in Kabul. Judge Naqibullah, who like many Afghans goes by one name, was arrested after two men accused of organizing the bombing told investigator they had stayed at the judge's house in Kabul. Naqibullah belonged to a faction of the Mujahideen, or holy warriors, who fought against Soviet control in the 1980s and Taliban control in the late 1990s. A spokesman for the supreme court said that authorities discovered explosives during a raid of Naqibullah's home.
Quote:Afghan Judge Arrested for Kabul Bombing
Sat Jan 8 World - Reuters
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have detained a supreme court judge suspected of being involved in an August car bomb attack that killed 10 people, including three Americans, in the capital Kabul, a court official said on Saturday.
The attack targeted offices used by the private U.S. security firm DynCorp, which provides protection to President Hamid Karzai and gives anti-narcotics training to Afghan police.
A supreme court official said the arrest of Judge Naqibullah followed the interrogation of two al Qaeda members detained this month for the bombing.
"The security forces several days ago arrested Naqibullah as an accused over the bombing incident," Wahid Mozhda, a spokesman for the supreme court, told Reuters.
"They said the other two suspects had also said that they had spent a night at Naqibullah's house in Kabul."
Naqibullah also served as the head of the preliminary court of a district of Panj Sher province to the northeast of the capital, the official said.
He belonged to a faction of the Mujahideen, or holy warriors, which fought the 1980s Soviet occupation and then the Taliban from the late 1990s, helping U.S.-led forces topple them in 2001.
Security forces said they discovered explosives during a raid on Naqibullah's house, Mozhda said.
The Taliban, ousted from power in 2001 for harboring al Qaeda and its chief, Osama bin Laden, claimed responsibility for the bombing and the suicide attack.
Bin Laden is the architect of Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. cities and his whereabouts remain a mystery, though officials speculate that he is hiding somewhere along the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Taliban remnants and their al Qaeda allies are mostly active in parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan.
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Just to be anti-Soviets and anti-Taliban amd thus being an enemy of the US-enemies perhaps doesn't qualify enough.
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