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Afghanistan’s US-run government was the world’s largest producer and exporter of opium, morphine, and the end-product, heroin.As it did after first seizing power in the mid-1990’s, Taliban, the Islamic anti-drug and anti-communist movement, is shutting down the Afghan drug trade. Billions worth of heroin, opium and morphine that had been flowing into Central Asia, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Southeast Asia will be sharply reduced. Afghanistan’s drug-based economy is now in dire jeopardy....ericmargolis.comAFGHANISTAN: WHERE’S THE CASH?Eric Margolis
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Afghanistan’s US-run government was the world’s largest producer and exporter of opium, morphine, and the end-product, heroin.As it did after first seizing power in the mid-1990’s, Taliban, the Islamic anti-drug and anti-communist movement, is shutting down the Afghan drug trade. Billions worth of heroin, opium and morphine that had been flowing into Central Asia, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Southeast Asia will be sharply reduced. Afghanistan’s drug-based economy is now in dire jeopardy....ericmargolis.comAFGHANISTAN: WHERE’S THE CASH?Eric Margolis
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Afghanistan’s US-run government was the world’s largest producer and exporter of opium, morphine, and the end-product, heroin.ericmargolis.comAs it did after first seizing power in the mid-1990’s, Taliban, the Islamic anti-drug and anti-communist movement, is shutting down the Afghan drug trade. Billions worth of heroin, opium and morphine that had been flowing into Central Asia, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Southeast Asia will be sharply reduced. Afghanistan’s drug-based economy is now in dire jeopardy....
AFGHANISTAN: WHERE’S THE CASH?
Eric Margolis
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