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Journalist David Rohde leaves a federal court in New York after speaking at the sentencing of a former Taliban commander who received a prison sentence on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, for kidnapping Rhode and two others for seven months in 2008 and for directing the killing of American soldiers at other times. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)

Ex-Taliban commander gets 42 years in prison in killings of U.S. soldiers, journalists’ kidnappings

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

FILE - This April 9, 1996, file photo shows David Rohde, then of The Christian Science Monitor, at a mass grave site in Kravice, Bosnia. Rohde, reporting for the New York Times, and two other men were kidnapped at gunpoint in Afghanistan in 2008. U.S. authorities announced Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, that an Afghan man, Haji Najibullah, has been brought to the United States to face charges in the kidnapping. The victims were not identified, but the description matched the kidnapping of Rohde and Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Arrest made in 2008 kidnapping of journalists in Afghanistan

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press