Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Opium production in Afghanistan is now 90% of the world's supply

According to an internal report for the American Special Forces on what's been going on in Afghanistan, opium production has gone from 74 metric tons a year under the Taliban to an astonishing 3600 metric tons, which is almost 90% of the worlds production. Profits from the drug trade equal $2 billion per year and is funding the insurgency.

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