Attention all opium and heroin addicts:
Go to Afghanistan for your fix.
The Taliban was a deterrent to drug cultivation and consumption before the U.S. invasion.
But the Taliban became the enemy and poppies bloomed.
The United States is not without blemish when it comes to drugs and war.
Allegations have tied drug-running with the C.I.A. and wars.
In fact, a few conspiracy theorists allege that the connection hasn’t ended.
The WAR ON DRUGS has gone on and on for decades.
Now there is the (perpetual) WAR ON TERROR.
Both wars have created profits for the Pentagon and many corporations.
War and drugs are two peas in a pod:
THEY MAKE MONEY!
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59 percent this year to produce a record 6,100 tons -- nearly a third more than the world's drug users consume, the U.N. said Saturday (9-2-06).
ClA-supported Mujahedeen rebels [now, 2001, part of the "Northern Alliance"] engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government and its plans to reform the very backward Afghan society. The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and a leading heroin refiner. CIA-supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the Afghan/Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that used in Western Europe.
Go to Afghanistan for your fix.
The Taliban was a deterrent to drug cultivation and consumption before the U.S. invasion.
But the Taliban became the enemy and poppies bloomed.
The United States is not without blemish when it comes to drugs and war.
Allegations have tied drug-running with the C.I.A. and wars.
In fact, a few conspiracy theorists allege that the connection hasn’t ended.
The WAR ON DRUGS has gone on and on for decades.
Now there is the (perpetual) WAR ON TERROR.
Both wars have created profits for the Pentagon and many corporations.
War and drugs are two peas in a pod:
THEY MAKE MONEY!
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59 percent this year to produce a record 6,100 tons -- nearly a third more than the world's drug users consume, the U.N. said Saturday (9-2-06).
ClA-supported Mujahedeen rebels [now, 2001, part of the "Northern Alliance"] engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government and its plans to reform the very backward Afghan society. The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and a leading heroin refiner. CIA-supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the Afghan/Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that used in Western Europe.
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