So Then Who's Getting the Afghan Poppy Money?

[Truth2Tell]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-drugs12-2009aug12,0,5770763.story">Several http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/taliban/funding-the-taliban">sources have recently reported that the Taliban aren't receiving the huge volume of Opium Poppy revenue that has been reported for years. In fact, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6329453&mesg_id=6329453">it's becoming clear that much of the Taliban money is coming straight from the US - likely much more than we even know. So... who's cashing in on the newly resurgent post-Taliban opium boom? The LA Times dropped a hint last Friday in their piece on Taliban financing...

In one of its most disconcerting conclusions, the Senate report says the United States inadvertently contributed to the resurgent drug trade after the Sept. 11 attacks by backing warlords who derived income from the flow of illegal drugs. The CIA and U.S. Special Forces put such warlords on their payroll during the drive to overthrow the Taliban regime in late 2001.

"These warlords later traded on their stature as U.S. allies to take senior positions in the new Afghan government, laying the groundwork for the corrupt nexus between drugs and authority that pervades the power structure today," the report says.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-drugs12-2009aug12,0,5770763.story

Backing warlords... on "the payroll" to spread teh freedom...

...to take senior positions in the new Afghan government.

So nice.

[Wilms]

1. Every Picture Tells a Story...

...don't it?

[Truth2Tell]

2. thanks Wilms, very revealing graph! nt

[TexasObserver]

3. Maybe Poppy ... or one of the other Bush family members.

[Truth2Tell]

4. rimshot.. nt

[Wilms]

5. At your service.

http://instantrimshot.com/

:D