Afghan official a convicted trafficker
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When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the seller was introduced only as "Mr. E." In a room at Caesars Palace hotel, Mr. E exchanged a pound-and-a-half bag of heroin for $65,000 cash &#151; unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective. The sting landed him in Nevada state prison for nearly four years.
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A man who admitted smuggling more than 24 tons of cocaine into the United States from 1984 to 2000 was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison.
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This powerful Afghan tribal leader offered to help the U.S., but is in a New York jail awaiting trial on drug charges. How the war on terror is at war with the war on drugs
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KAZAN, Russia -- Timur Ishmuratov is back in prison, his fourth stretch in three countries since he crossed into Afghanistan in early 2001 looking, his family says, for the perfect Islamic society.
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An American was released from an Afghan prison and flown out of the country Saturday after serving more than two years for running a private prison as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists, officials said.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 11 -- A man convicted of participating in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt was sentenced Monday to more than 23 years in prison.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Information from a man caught in a vehicle loaded with explosives led to the arrests of two senior Taliban military commanders, including a former security chief of the hard-line regime's leader, Mullah Omar, an official said yesterday.
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Living in Afghanistan, the world's unrivalled producer of heroin, Faqirullah has no problem finding drugs to feed his habit. What concerns him is getting the cash to buy them.
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A former U.N. procurement official was convicted in a fraud and corruption scandal on Thursday for helping a friend secure at least $50 million in U.N. contracts.
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ISLAMABAD, 25 August 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday announced he would free the last 400 Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taleban and had been languishing in decrepit Afghan jails since late 2001.
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Afghanistan's world-leading opium cultivation rose a "staggering" 60 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drugs chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big traffickers and remove corrupt officials and police.
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KABUL: The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan, a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road construction project, ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldnât slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood.
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An Afghan minister says land is being illegally appropriated by powerful individuals like MPs and senior officials.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a US citizen captured in Afghanistan who was once deemed so dangerous that the US military held him incommunicado for more than two years as an enemy combatant
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Mirwais Yasini, director general of Afghanistan&#39;s counter-narcotics department, tells the story of how a British general asked him for a list of Afghan commanders involved in the drug trade.