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US prosecutors charge Afghan with funding Taliban terrorism with drug money

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday announced charges against an Afghan of conspiring to finance terrorist activity. Haji Juma Khan, who was already detained on charges of narco-terrorism, is accused of providing the Taliban with proceeds from his drug operation with knowledge that the money would be used in terrorist activities in Afghanistan. The prosecution alleges that Khan was closely aligned with the Taliban in the course of his drug activities and that his organization sold enough morphine base fill the US heroin market for two years. Khan faces up to a life sentence and a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted. In May, a jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia convicted Afghan national Khan Mohammed, who was originally held as an enemy combatant, on charges of drug distribution and narco-terrorism. That was one of the first prosecutions of the US anti-narco-terrorism effort, aimed at crippling terrorist organizations by stopping the sale of the drugs said to finance them. In September, Afghan tribal chief Haji Bashir Noorzai was convicted following his April 2008 indictment for violation of US drug laws.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).