Ex-NYC Uber driver on trial for allegedly trying to join Taliban and 'kill Americans'
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A former New York City Uber driver planned to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and “kill Americans” before he was arrested at John F Kennedy airport in 2019, prosecutors alleged during the opening statements of his trial.
"He wasn’t just any other traveler — he was on a mission to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and kill Americans and he was on his way," Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Schrier said on the first day of the trial in Manhattan.
Hossain’s attorney, however, contends he was just a "wannabe playboy" who decided to leave his wife and family to fly to Thailand to meet girls.
Schrier said Hossain planned to go from Thailand to Afghanistan and he had already bought supplies to survive in the country.
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