A once-powerful Afghan drug lord who boasted that he was waging "jihad" on Americans by flooding New York's streets with heroin was sentenced to nearly 16 years behind bars on federal drug charges yesterday. Haji Baz Mohammad, 51, was hit with the prison term in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to heading a massive drug organization that manufactured $25 million worth of heroin in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1990 to 1995.
The drug kingpin, the first ever extradited from Afghanistan, is accused of using money he reaped from the drug trade to finance the Taliban and other terror groups, which in turn protected his poppy fields and drug labs. |