FORMER AFGHAN GENERAL AND FIRST DEPUTY HOUSE SPEAKER EXTRADITED TO U.S. TO FACE CHARGES OF CONSPIRING TO TRAFFIC HUNDREDS OF KILOGRAMS OF HEROIN AND METHAMPHETAMINE AND PROVIDE ARSENAL OF MILITARY-GRADE WEAPONRY

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, and Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"), Terrance C. Cole, announced today the unsealing of a Complaint chargingABDUL ZAHIR QADEER, a/k/a "Haji Abdul Zahir," a former general in Afghanistan's Border Force and First Deputy Speaker of Afghanistan's National Assembly's House of the People, with conspiring to import heroin and methamphetamine and related firearms offenses. QADEER was presented earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hen...