 A judge arrested in connection with two bombings that killed about 12 people, including four Americans, in Kabul last year has admitted that the suspected organisers of the attacks lodged at his house, a senior official said on Sunday.
Naqibullah, a 60-year-old preliminary court judge, was detained about two weeks ago after two captured suspects said they had stayed in his Kabul house while they orchestrated an Aug. 29 car bombing at a US security company as well as a suicide attack in the city. Officials have identified the alleged ringleader as a Tajik national named Muhammad Haider and say he took his orders from an Iraqi Al Qaeda member. They accuse Haider and an Afghan accomplice of organising the attacks. "The judge said he gave them shelter and that he knew they were foreigners," Gen Abdul Fatah, a senior Afghan prosecutor, told The Associated Press. He wouldn't say whether the judge knew of the men's activities. Three Americans were among about 10 people killed in the attack on the office of Dyncorp, a contractor which provides bodyguards for President Hamid Karzai and helps train Afghan police. |