Judge Arrested in Dyncorp Bomb Case

Authorities have arrested a judge on suspicion of harboring the organizers of two bombings last year that killed about 12 people, including four Americans, a senior official said.

Gen. Abdul Fatah, an Afghan prosecutor, said a preliminary court judge named Naqibullah was detained about two weeks ago after two men accused of organizing the August car bomb attack in Kabul against U.S. security contractor Dyncorp told investigators they had stayed at his house in the capital.

Naqibullah, who like many Afghans goes by one name, was the head of a preliminary court in the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, Fatah said.

Three Americans were among about 10 people killed in the attack on the office of Dyncorp. Two months later, a suicide attacker blew himself up in the capital near a group of Icelandic peacekeepers, injuring three soldiers and killing an American woman and an Afghan girl.