Taliban Vow to Ban Heroin
August 19th, 2021I doubt it.
The Taliban’s near elimination of opium production back in 2000/2001 is probably one of the main reasons why Uncle $cam spent the next couple of decades in Afghanistan, making it the top opium producer in the world.
Is all of that hard work over now?
While I’m just guessing, the tons of weapons left behind by the U.S. remind me of the Contra drugs for guns operations from the 1980s, except on a much larger scale.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an Excel spreadsheet somewhere with all of the weapons left behind for the Taliban and a deliverables column with some number of tons of opium and/or heroin.
How much opium and heroin is all of that military hardware worth?
Unknown, but see, Billions in US Weaponry Seized by Taliban:
It is unclear exactly how many weapons have fallen into the hands of the Taliban, but the Biden administration has acknowledged it’s a “fair amount.”
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday. “And obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
Mmm hmm. A fair amount. Sounds about right.
Maybe the Taliban will be handing over something else at the airport, or driving “it” out over the bridge that the U.S. built for them.
Via: AFP:
Heroin production has boomed in Afghanistan in recent years, helping fund the Taliban, and experts say they will struggle to wean themselves off the profitable trade despite their promise to do so.
Speaking Tuesday at a first press conference since taking power, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid promised that the new government would not turn the world’s leading producer of opium into a fully-fledged narco-state.
