RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A former Army medic testified on Tuesday that an accused Russian Taliban fighter shot at U.S. troops during a firefight that followed a failed insurgent attack on an Afghan base in 2009.
The suspect, Irek Hamidullin, is a former Soviet tank commander who converted to Islam and was allegedly fighting for the Taliban. He is the first Afghan War military combatant to be tried in U.S. federal court.
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