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PJ Media: Taliban Says It's Moving to Ban Opium Production to Encourage International Recognition
The Taliban says it is moving to ban opium production in Afghanistan in an effort to secure international recognition for the regime.
But will the world forget the previous 20 years the Taliban benefited financially from the drug trade?
The Taliban standardized and grew the opium industry to facilitate the financing of their insurgency.
They recruited poppy farmers and taxed their crops, undermining U.S. and Afghan government efforts to destroy the drug trade.
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Update #1: Taliban Move to Ban Opium Production in Afghanistan -- WSJ
Update #2: Taliban Move To Ban Opium Production, But Could It Majorly Backfire? -- South Front
WNU Editor: It looks like the Taliban are serious .... Opium prices triple in Afghanistan after Taliban announces poppy ban (The Telegraph).
3 comments:
"Opium prices triple on Taliban announcement to ban opium". LOL - I think the Taliban accomplished the exact intended result. (quick cash infusion from inflated drug prices by stated harassment of poppy growers)
I'm whiffing some poppy crop ban Kabuki theater here.
They'll just create an underground market for it rather than openly trade in it. Nothing to see here but false overtures.
I don't believe it.
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