Cap wrote:yialousa1971 wrote:It's all about Herion!
Well if it was drugs they were worried about, there would've been a mushroom cloud over mexico years ago.
Mexico's drug war is one of the most brutal and bloody in history. In fact, I'd even suggest Mexico and South Africa are planet earths population control centers when it comes to violent human casualties. Its unreal.
The Taliban stopped all Herion production!
By 2001, opium production was at an all-time low.
That didn't mean that the availability of heroin around the world dried up; it's still grown in Southeast Asia, Mexico and certain parts of South America. But with the fall of the Taliban and the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, opium production has spiked again; last year's opium harvest was at a record high, and now Afghanistan is responsible for 90 percent of the heroin consumed worldwide.
With the fall of the Taliban and the U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden and his followers, eradication of opium has taken a backseat to rebuilding a democratic government in the poor country. The ironic thing about it is that the farmers who grow opium are now turning to protection from the remnants of the Taliban, sharing a portion of their profits with the terror network, contributing to the escalating violence in Afghanistan.
The collapse of the Taliban could be good news for Central Asia’s heroin trade. After over a year of being forced to stop growing opium by the Taliban, many Afghan farmers have once again seeded their fields with poppy. CBSNews.com's David Kohn reports.
Until last year, Afghanistan produced almost three-quarters of the world's heroin. But in July 2000, the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation. No one outside the regime knows exactly what motivated the ban. The Taliban, who embrace an extremely strict vision of Islam, said they were simply following the strictures of the Koran.
But to the amazement of most outside observers, the Taliban made the ban stick, using their brutal reputation to scare farmers into complying. In one year, the opium harvest fell 98 percent, from more than 4000 tons in 2000 to 80 tons this year. The number of acres under cultivation dropped from more than 200,000 to less than 20,000.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/12/04/terror/main320038.shtml
The above is why Afghanistan was invaded and do not forget the Anglo's/Anglo Americans supported the Muslims against the Russians. Destroy Turkey and you stop Herion import to Europe.
