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The source you have listed at number four is THE largest and most far reaching source of income for Taliban.
1) According to UNODC Afghanistan is responsible for 92 percent of global output of opium.
2) Each year, the country produces about $4 billion worth, or 53 percent of gross domestic product of the country.
3) Helmand alone accounts for 66 percent of the production (see the attached map). This province was first under British control and has been in US control for past two years if i am not wrong.
4)In year 2007 according to UNDOC's estimates nearly 500 million dollars of the 4 billion dollar figure went directly in insurgency. That figure is very unlikely at the lower side in 2008 and very highly likely at the upper side.
Following is from the article " The Taliban: An Organizational Analysis" hosted at US military's Combined Arms Center website.
"Drug revenue. The last key resource is the illegal drug trade, which provides revenue and other benefits. With improved irrigation and more rain, Afghanistan has virtually become a narco-state.47 record 2006 opium harvest was worth over $3 billion.48 2007 estimates are even higher. Afghanistan
currently produces 93 percent of the world’s opium—almost one-half of Afghanistan’s gross domestic product comes from this trade.49 The exact amount the Taliban receives from it is unclear, but they tax farmers, landowners, and drug traffickers. While the group initially vowed to eliminate opium, they look to it now as a necessary evil to further their cause: not only does it generate funds for the insurgency, but it poisons the decadent West, especially Europe, which gets 90 percent of its heroin from Afghanistan. drug traffickers and the Taliban help each other with weapons, personnel, and money, all to destabilize the Islamic Republic of (IROA)."
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Now America still have not done anything seriou to stop it and this is causing huge problems for Pakistanis and Talibans get money from Afghanistan and then Launch Attacks on Pakistan.Is CIA in bed with Talibs which is why USMil is not completely bombing these fields?I mean they can literally invent a new weapon for just finishing opium stuff and yet they are spending billions on weapons but can't finish the drug business..this sounds lame to me.This clearly indicates that America is not interested in winning but the war but prolonging it's stay in Afghanistan.
1) According to UNODC Afghanistan is responsible for 92 percent of global output of opium.
2) Each year, the country produces about $4 billion worth, or 53 percent of gross domestic product of the country.
3) Helmand alone accounts for 66 percent of the production (see the attached map). This province was first under British control and has been in US control for past two years if i am not wrong.
4)In year 2007 according to UNDOC's estimates nearly 500 million dollars of the 4 billion dollar figure went directly in insurgency. That figure is very unlikely at the lower side in 2008 and very highly likely at the upper side.
Following is from the article " The Taliban: An Organizational Analysis" hosted at US military's Combined Arms Center website.
"Drug revenue. The last key resource is the illegal drug trade, which provides revenue and other benefits. With improved irrigation and more rain, Afghanistan has virtually become a narco-state.47 record 2006 opium harvest was worth over $3 billion.48 2007 estimates are even higher. Afghanistan
currently produces 93 percent of the world’s opium—almost one-half of Afghanistan’s gross domestic product comes from this trade.49 The exact amount the Taliban receives from it is unclear, but they tax farmers, landowners, and drug traffickers. While the group initially vowed to eliminate opium, they look to it now as a necessary evil to further their cause: not only does it generate funds for the insurgency, but it poisons the decadent West, especially Europe, which gets 90 percent of its heroin from Afghanistan. drug traffickers and the Taliban help each other with weapons, personnel, and money, all to destabilize the Islamic Republic of (IROA)."
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Now America still have not done anything seriou to stop it and this is causing huge problems for Pakistanis and Talibans get money from Afghanistan and then Launch Attacks on Pakistan.Is CIA in bed with Talibs which is why USMil is not completely bombing these fields?I mean they can literally invent a new weapon for just finishing opium stuff and yet they are spending billions on weapons but can't finish the drug business..this sounds lame to me.This clearly indicates that America is not interested in winning but the war but prolonging it's stay in Afghanistan.
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