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Haji Baz Mohammad Update. "Drug lord 'waged jihad'," from the Associated Press:
An Afghan drug lord accused of plotting to poison U.S. neighbourhoods with heroin was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison yesterday.
Haji Baz Mohammad, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin after he admitted violating drug laws from 1990 to 2005 by shipping heroin from Afghanistan and leading a drug ring that stretched into neighbouring Pakistan. He was the first Afghan heroin kingpin extradited from Afghanistan, authorities said.
Mohammad pleaded guilty in July to a charge of conspiring to violate drug laws. Without the plea, Mohammad could have faced up to life in prison.
Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Karen Tandy said in a news release that the sentencing demonstrated U.S. resolve "to destroy the hold opium lords have on Afghanistan."
It would be great to see much more of that resolve.
She added: "This drug kingpin bragged that he waged jihad against Americans by poisoning them with his heroin. His attack was unconventional, and his massive drug profits funded the Taliban and other extremist organizations dedicated to destroying freedom and justice."
Mohammad has been in custody since his 2005 arrest in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Posted by Marisol at October 8, 2007 12:39 AM
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"demonstrated U.S. resolve "to destroy the hold opium lords have on Afghanistan."
...agent orange....Monsanto still has vast quantities...
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at October 8, 2007 8:49 AM
For all the people who think the war on drugs is "just a bumper sticker" [sic], it seems that we have inadvertently been on the right track all along.
Since these predominantly Muslim and Muslim-led countries are parasitic in nature, rather than productive in nature, it isn't that much of a stretch to realize that they aren't financing jihad, militias, propaganda, etc. by making shoes, writing code, growing cotton, and curing cancer.
Their economies must necessarily (because there is no compulsion in their own cultural psyche) thrive on the backs of other cultures. Drugs and a great and profitable way...proverbially killing two birds with one stone.
Just why do you think it's difficult to get Afghan farmers to leave the poppy alone and grow corn? Why do you think America became the breadbasket to the world instead of the dealer to the world? We've got great soil...maybe that's what happened to that other settlement in Virginia. Really stoned but nothing to eat. (SNL this weekend)
There is something just innate about Islam that suppresses the productivity of man. For Western thought to continue to look at these ultraconservative Muslim societies as something like Puritans ignores the history of their ideology. These economies of parasitic thievery rather than productivity will doom them in the end, if we can keep the revenue streams (drugs) dried up to rivulets.
Posted by: winoceros at October 8, 2007 8:53 AM
It's a double-edged weapon: the heroin addiction statistics for Pakistan and Iran are through the roof - the proportion of the population affected is much higher than in any western country.
Posted by: wallyUK at October 8, 2007 12:28 PM
Remember a couple years ago how the commercial saying, in essence, "if you buy dope you support terrorism" was so viciously excoriated?
Well, forget the fact the same doper baby pahblum spewers are conspicuously absent from this obvious nuking of their credibility, I just wonder one thing of them:
"*ahem*...you were saying???"
While I don't count on any response from them, since they're hiding under their desk, I wonder if now is a bad time to remind them (among other things):
"See? I told you so!"
Case-in-point we need REAL laws that actually work to stop it...like they have in Singapore.
They work, period.
at October 8, 2007 1:47 PM
Why the CIA doesn't set up some guys to pretend to be mafia middlemen who have come to Afghanistan to buy up all the opium crop- (resulting in happy farmers who are not tempted, by poverty, to join the Taliban or who are not made made resentful of the infidels who impoverish them by merely destroying their livelihood in the field) and then burn it out of sight of the sellers- is baffling.
It would be cheaper, in every sense.
Posted by: profitsbeard at October 9, 2007 12:47 AM
An Afghan drug lord accused of plotting to poison U.S. neighbourhoods with heroin was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison yesterday...
That's ALL he received: 15 years? For all the misery he's caused, he should get life with no possibility for parole. That's the way it is, with the bleeding-heart courts we have today. Death would be too good for him; he would have become a martyr: Let him rot in prison for the remainder of his rotten life.
at October 9, 2007 10:19 AM
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