Two U.S. citizens among seven charged in conspiracy to aid Taliban | AHN

Two U.S. citizens among seven charged in conspiracy to aid Taliban | AHN: "Two American citizens are among a group of men federal prosecutors have charged with conspiring to help the Taliban in Afghanistan move drugs and obtain weapons.

Oded Orbach and Alwar Pouryan are accused of trying to sell surface-to-air missiles to confidential sources of the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration who posed as representatives of the Taliban.
The two allegedly met with the confidential sources beginning in October in Ghana, Ukraine and Romania about the prices, technical specifications and requirements for training for the sale of weapons.
The weapons, which included anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers and AK-47s, were to be used to protect Taliban-owned heroin laboratories in Afghanistan.
The five other men in the group are charged with agreeing to receive and store multi-ton shipments of Taliban-owned heroin in the West African nation of Benin. They agreed to transport the drugs to Ghana, knowing that some of the heroin would later be brought to the United States via a commercial flight."

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