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Posted 10/28/09 2:46 PM Adam de Angeli Ann Arbor, MI | This article says the Afghan drug trade is a chief source of money for the Taliban, but according to the New Yorker:
"The Taliban instituted a strict Islamist policy against the opium trade during the final years of their regime, and by the time of their overthrow they had virtually eliminated it. But now, Lieutenant General Mohammad Daud-Daud, Afghanistan’s deputy minister of the interior for counter-narcotics, told me, 'there has been a coalition between the Taliban and the opium smugglers. This year, they have set up a commission to tax the harvest.' In return, he said, the Taliban had offered opium farmers protection from the government's eradication efforts." (http://bit.ly/stV8q) In other words, the reason opium is flowing out of Afghanistan is because of American support for the Karzai regime. Meanwhile, Karzai's brother is a CIA drug smuggler. That's a pretty strong dose of drugs and death, courtesy of our politicians. |
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