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June 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
He said Bagcho, who has 13 children from two wives, had been involved in the
business since the early 1990s, but denied the family had ever given money
to the Taliban.
Khadi Gul said: “For four years we have heard nothing from him, by
telephone, letter or anything.
“He was a smuggler, that’s true, everyone in our area is, but we don’t
agree that he gave money to the Taliban.
“They should bring him here and try him. We have our own courts here.”
The case against Bagcho, built on a five year investigation, gives a glimpse
of the enormous scale and breadth of the Afghan heroin industry which
provides more than 90 per cent of the world’s supply.
American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents working with undercover
Afghan police officers recorded a series of drug deals with Bagcho where he
sold them kilograms of heroin he thought was destined for the US.
During the investigation he offered an Afghan border police commander a “blank
cheque” if he would tip him off about drug raids and help him transport
his product.
Regular payments of cash, weapons and food were made to three Taliban
commanders in Nangarhar, including Maulawi Kabir, the insurgents’ shadow
governor.
However the true scale of his operation was only disclosed when Bagcho’s
compound was raided in November 2007 and ledgers were found in a lavatory
detailing the movement during 2006 of 275,000lb of heroin that he valued at
£160 million.
He was arrested in Pakistan in 2009, “for unknown reasons unrelated to
this case” according to case documents, then handed over to Afghan
custody and extradited to America.
In March, he was found guilty of conspiracy, distribution of heroin for
importation into the United States and narco-terrorism.
He will be sentenced on Tuesday and faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and
may be jailed for life.
Bagcho’s eldest son, Sucha Gul, was arrested during a night raid by Nato
forces on January 14 and is believed to be held in Bagram prison north of
Kabul.
Several more alleged Afghan drug lords are awaiting trial in the US and more
have been convicted in a purpose-built, British and American-funded court in
Afghanistan.
However the networks are often quickly revived by other traffickers. Some of
the country’s most senior opium kingpins are also deemed untouchable because
of their political connections to the Karzai government, western officials
in Afghanistan have complained.
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