Taliban drug lord captured for 17 years by US released
World | September 19, 2022 17:02 ISTBashir Noorzai, a Taliban drug lord, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was released in exchange with American Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran, who was held in Afghanistan.