-Caveat Lector- didn't we just just give them millions of dollars because we are so happy with their anti heroin stance? funny how that fact keeps slipping by unmentioned. BTW - since the taliban, there has been almost no hash on the east coast of the US - all the supply lines here were based on mujahadeen sales to finance fighting the Russians. ---------------------- ------- ----------------------------- "Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it" Elwood P Dowd NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew > From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Anomalous Images > Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:14:21 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CTRL] U.S. considering targeting Taliban drug trade > > -Caveat Lector- > > Pakistan would like to get their hands on more opium in order to pay off huge > debt. CIA likes this idea. Don't expect drug imports to US to decline anytime > soon. Rember Vietnam (great increase in heroin imports) and Guatamala > (huge increase in Cocaine imports). I guess the CIA needs more money too. > :-( > > > U.S. considering targeting Taliban drug trade > > September 24, 2001 Posted: 7:38 PM EDT (2338 GMT) > > By Jamie McIntyre CNN > > WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pentagon officials have targeted illicit-drug > production facilities in Afghanistan to cut off the Taliban militia's funding, > sources told CNN Monday. > > Striking at drug facilities is one option military planners are considering as > they devise ways military force could be used to pressure the Taliban, a > senior Pentagon official said. > > "This is like a football coach having a lot of plays in his play book," the > official > said. Drug facilities in Afghanistan are on the "list of potential targets," > the > source said. > > Officials are investigating a "full spectrum" of options in dealing with the > Taliban, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday. > > "We're intent on altering behavior," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon briefing. > "We're intent on attempting to take the steps so that the American people > and our interests and friends and allies and deployed forces can go about > our business not in fear." > > Illicit drug trade is the primary source of revenue for the Taliban, bringing > it an > estimated $50 million a year, U.S. officials say. The Bush administration is > trying to squeeze the finances of terrorist groups in general -- Osama bin > Laden's al Qaeda in particular -- by freezing their assets and cutting off > their > sources of revenue. > > CIA analysts say Afghanistan in 1999 led the world in the illicit production > of > opium, the substance from which heroin is derived. > > This year, say U.S. officials, the Taliban banned the cultivation of poppies, > the source of opium. The ban apparently has been effective: Almost no > poppies are growing in Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan, sources > say. > > Still, say analysts, evidence suggests the Taliban have huge stockpiles of > poppies, sufficient to keep cash flowing. > > The ban apparently has not harmed Afghanistan's drug production, according > to the CIA, whose fact book lists Afghanistan as major source of hashish. > Increasing numbers of heroin-processing laboratories are setting up in the > country, and major Afghan political factions profit from their illicit > activities, > the fact book says. > > > Steve Wingate, Webmaster > ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES > http://www.anomalous-images.com > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic > screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! 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