Reply #3: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade [View All]

[EVDebs]

http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/DARKALLIANCE/ciaheron.html

With the 'catastrophic success' of Bush I and now Bush II's war on drugs we now wonder what extra-Consitutional source of funds for the military's 'black op' (and Congressional campaign contributions via overseas sourced drug running) are up to these days.

The funny thing is prior to 9-11 Bush's administration actually was paying the Taliban to decrease the opium crop,

"The Taliban, which briefly banned poppy cultivation in 2000 in an effort to gain U.S. diplomatic recognition and aid, now both supports and draws support from that profitable crop; Afghanistan provides 92 percent of the world's heroin.

Yet Western policies designed to eliminate the Taliban and the poppy are at odds with each other. While NATO troops scramble, between battles, to rebuild rural infrastructure, U.S. advisers urge Afghan anti-narcotics police to eradicate the livelihood of 2 million poor farmers. "

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/12/17/ING08MTPMB1.DTL