E. M.
2007-08-09 09:28:27
Fighting drugs has always meant fighting terror. Prior to 9/11, Al Qaeda was funded in no small part by the profits from Afghan poppy fields. The Taliban “banned” heroin growth in the early 90s, only to sock away stores of it and traffic it along the Silk Road to Israel and Western Europe. The trade itself has been funding Islamic dictatorships for centuries. Once the west cracked down on the poppy farming and occupied much of Afghanistan, they needed another source for their lucrative export. Naturally, they turned to unstable latin American countries. The black market has no borders, and just as international arms trade proceeds without recourse under the watchful eye of the UN, the drug trade does as well.
