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US journalist rips ‘cowardly’ and ‘cruel’ Taliban commander — who’s sentenced to 42 years for kidnapping him

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist held hostage by the Taliban for months in Afghanistan shot a death glare at his captor in Manhattan court Monday — before the terrorist was slapped with a 42-year sentence. “Hostage taking is a cowardly and cruel crime,” said David Rohde, as he stared down ex-Taliban commander Haji Najibullah, who pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping the veteran reporter at gunpoint in Kabul in November 2008 after luring the journalist with the promise of sitting down for an interview. 3 David Rohde confronted his captor Haji Najibullah in court on Tuesday.

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