WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Sunday that he would examine the case of a Special Forces soldier charged by the Army last week with murdering a suspected Afghan bomb maker nearly nine years ago. Military hero,’ Major Matt Golsteyn, who is charged with murder,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, responding to a segment on Fox News. “He could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas.”Major Golsteyn acknowledged the shooting both during a C.I.A. American troops captured the Afghan man, who was found with bomb-making material, but then released him. It is unclear how Major Golsteyn tracked him down after his release.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2018 16:57 UTC