'Heroin Flees Afghanistan For A Safer Home'

from strategypage.....

"Afghanistan is losing its dominant share of the world heroin trade. In the last year, Burma has gone from producing five percent of the world's heroin, to 12 percent. Afghanistan is down to under 80 percent. That should be no surprise, as heroin, and the opium used to produce it, has long been considered a curse in Afghanistan. That's because only about ten percent of the population benefits from the heroin trade, and a higher percentage of Afghans suffer from it. Islamic terrorism (Taliban and similar outfits) is staying alive because of this drug production and smuggling. In a relationship that has been used many times before (Colombia, Burma), the drug gangs pay the religious or political rebels for security services. As long as illegal drug production thrives in Afghanistan, so will the Taliban, and any other group wanting to be free of government control"...........READ MORE