German prosecutors said Friday that they have filed terrorism and murder charges against a suspected member of Afghanistan’s Taleban whom they accuse of participating in an attack in which an American soldier was killed. Federal prosecutors said they filed the indictment against the 20-year-old Afghan national, identified only as Abdol Moghadas S. in line with German privacy rules, at the Munich state court. He is charged with membership in a terrorist organisation, murder and attempted murder, as well as violating weapons laws. The suspect joined the Taleban in 2013 and underwent weapons training, and participated in two attacks on US soldiers and Afghan government troops, prosecutors said.
Media reported that the suspect, who was arrested in Germany in February, also is accused of transporting to Kabul on several occasions in 2014 and 2015 bombs made by the commander of his local Taleban unit that could be detonated by remote control. He was arrested in March on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, but prosecutors said that they hadn’t found enough evidence to continue holding him in custody.
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