U.S. War in Afghanistan Became World's Biggest Drug Business That Kills Tens of Thous

[mr42O]

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Some one is making good money from afghan war

[Barrett]

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In 2000 Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.

The Taliban, which had imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controlled, had set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.


The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search in Feb 2001, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan, Frahi said in an interview. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.

This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest about 175,000 acres was clean.

The Annual Production of opium came down to 185 Metric Tons in 2001 from last years 3,276 Metric tons.Since the presence of NATO forces we have seen a substantial increase in opium production.According to UNODC - World Drug Report 2009 - Afghanistan produced 7,700 Metric Tons of opium in 2008.
The Annual Afghan Drug trade is estimated at near 3.4 billion $.

So where is this money going and who is benefiting from it ?