New York, April 30 (IANS) Two American nationals have been extradited from Romania to the US on charges of providing the Taliban with high-tech weapons to protect their heroin labs from the US military, a media report said.

Alwar ‘Allan’ Pouryan and Oded ‘Dedy’ Orbach were arrested in Bucharest in February in a sting operation, the New York Post reported.

Prosecutors at a federal court in New York say they offered to sell Russian surface-to-air missiles for use against US helicopters in Afghanistan.