U.S. Green Beret charged with murder of man in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Army Green Beret has been charged with a murder of an Afghan male during his 2010 deployment to Afghanistan, a U.S. troops orator pronounced on Thursday.
Major Matthew Golsteyn has certified to sharpened and murdering a male in Afghanistan since he suspected he was a bombmaker for a Taliban belligerent group, NBC News reported.
Golsteyn certified twice to a killing, once in an talk for a pursuit during a view group and again during an talk with Fox News Channel, NBC News said.
“Major Matthew Golsteyn’s evident commander has dynamic that sufficient justification exists to aver a preferral of charges opposite him,” Lieutenant Colonel Loren Bymer, a orator for a U.S. Army Special Operations Command, pronounced in a statement.
Golsteyn pronounced in a matter he believed a allegations opposite him had been resolved years ago.
His attorney, Phil Stackhouse, pronounced he would be “relentless” in fortifying Golsteyn opposite a charges.
“Major Golsteyn is a common servant-leader who saved large lives, both American and Afghan, and has been famous regularly for his chivalrous actions,” Stackhouse said.
Reporting by Idrees Ali; Additional stating by Rich McKay; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Paul Tait
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