US charges men over 'Taliban links'

Seven men, including two US citizens, have been charged in New York with selling drugs and weapons in an alleged effort to help the Taliban fight American troops overseas.
In meetings in Benin, Romania, Ghana and the Ukraine, the men are alleged to have agreed to transport and sell heroin for informants posing as members of the Taliban, which is deemed a terrorist group by the US.
The men also agreed to sell the informants surface-to-air missiles for use in Afghanistan, authorities said.

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