Haji Bashar
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Haji Bashar was an early supporter of the austere Taliban movement.
He fought Soviet forces that occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, and is widely credited with making a fortune in trading cloth, tea and opium across the border with Iran.
Bashar was arrested by the U.S. government in 2005 and charged in a heroin conspiracy. Bashar will be represented at his 2007 trial by New York criminal defense lawyer Ivan Fisher. The case has raised substantial questions about U.S. foreign policy abroad. [1]