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Khun Sa, ex-drug lord, guerrilla, dies (AP)

Khun Sa, shown at this headquarters in Homong, Myanmar on November 22, 1995, has died according to a former secretary who now works with ethnic Shan minority guerilla groups. The former drug lord was once one of the world's most wanted men and was also described as a liberation fighter. At the height of his notoriety, Khun Sa presided over a narcotics kingdom in the jungle valleys of the Golden Triangle. He died Friday Oct. 26, 2007, in Yangon. (AP Photo/File)AP - Khun Sa, a drug lord once described by the U.S. government as the world’s largest producer of heroin, has died, an associate and a Myanmar official said Tuesday. He was 74.

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