As US
Moves to Draw
Down Forces in
Afghanistan
In SDNY Fast
Presentment of
Taliban
Heroin
Indictee
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope
video, II
III
NEW YORK CITY,
February 6 – While the US
government seeks a way to draw
down its military forces in
Afghanistan, on February 6 the
US Attorney for the Southern
District of New York unsealed
the indictment of, and
presented in the SDNY, Afghan
national Haji Abdul Sattar
Barakzai a/k/a Manaf for
allegedly supporting the
Taliban with heroin imports
and sales. Inner City Press,
covering the SDNY - on this
day, a sentencing
for crack sales and two
police
brutality cases about to
go to the jury - went the
courtroom of the assigned
judge, Paul Crotty, but it was
locked.
Down in
courtroom 5A they said, Manaf
is finished, it was done.
Here's from the arrest
warrant: "From at least in or
about January 2018, up to and
including in or about
September 2018, in Afghanistan
and elsewhere, and in an
offense begun and committed
outside the jurisdiction of
any particular state or
district of the United States,
HAJI ABDUL SATAR ABDUL MANAF,
a/k/a "Haji Abdul Sattar
Barakzai," the defendant, who
is expected to be first
brought to and arrested in the
Southern District of New York,
knowingly and intentionally
did engage in conduct that
would be punishable under
Section 841(a) of Title 21,
United States Code, if
committed within the
jurisdiction of the United
States, to wit, the
manufacture, distribution, and
possession with intent to
manufacture and distribute, of
one kilogram and more of
mixtures and substances
containing a detectable amount
of heroin, knowing and
intending to provide, directly
and indirectly, something of
pecuniary value to a person
and organization that has
engaged and engages in
terrorism and terrorist
activity, to wit, the Taliban
and its members, operatives,
and associates, having
knowledge that said persons
and organizations have engaged
in and engage in terrorism and
terrorist activity, which
activity violates the criminal
laws of the United States,
occurs in and affects foreign
commerce, and causes and is
designed to cause death and
serious bodily injury to
nationals of the United States
while the nationals are
outside of the United States."
Upcoming in the
SDNY is a just-filed complaint
by the Bangladesh Central Bank
for the $81 million hacking of
its funds, which were then
wired through the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, a case
that Inner City Press will
cover. Times change. Watch
this site.
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