Bashir Noorzai is a former Afghan drug lord. [1] He was an early supporter of the Taliban movement [2] and later worked as an undercover agent on behalf of the U.S. government.

Bashir Noorzai, Former Afghan drug lord known for being the "Pablo Escobar of the Middle East". He was one of the earliest members of the Afghan militant group Taliban. [citation needed]

2022年9月19日 · Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in a U.S. prison. Taliban-appointed …

2022年9月19日 · US President Joe Biden on Monday welcomed the release of Mark Frerichs, who was abducted while working as a civil engineer in Afghanistan. But he acknowledged that …

2024年2月10日 · Bashir Noorzai, a close friend of the extremists’ supreme leader, has set up murky joint-venture deals with Chinese firms in Afghanistan that have won at least two …

"BASHIR NOORZAI supported an extremist Taliban regime with the proceeds of his worldwide heroin trade. With today's verdict, NOORZAI's decades-long criminal career has finally ended, …

2009年5月1日 · The tribal leader, Haji Bashir Noorzai, whose case drew wide attention because of his prominent role in the drug trade and his ties to Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive …

2023年6月14日 · Noorzai, described by US officials as the “Pablo Escobar of heroin trafficking in Asia”, was returning home after 17 years of imprisonment in a US jail where he was serving a …

2022年9月26日 · As few people outside the closed world of counter-terror missions know, Noorzai was a high-priority target on the U.S. special operations forces' highly classified kill-or-capture …

NOORZAI, who faced a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, was sentenced by Judge CHIN to life imprisonment on each count in the Indictment. In sentencing NOORZAI, Judge …