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Drugs, security, and counternarcotics policies in Afghanistan
Vanda Felbab-Brown testifies as part of the United Kingdom Parliament, House of Lords, International Relations and Defence Committee's Inquiry into Afghanistan on drugs, security, and counternarcotics policies in Afghanistan.
www.brookings.edu
Measuring the size of illicit economies and any derivative numbers, such as profit levels, is notoriously difficult, but it is estimated that somewhere between 20-40 percent of the Taliban’s income comes from drugs, a number that could plausibly have grown higher, and that brings the Taliban tens of millions of dollars annually (perhaps s much as a hundred million).[18] It is important to note that drug income is still, at most, only about half of the Taliban’s income. This fact has important implications for counternarcotics and counterinsurgency strategies, especially since eliminating the Taliban’s financial base through counternarcotics efforts was often seen as a key element of the counterinsurgency strategy.[19] |
...and no prizes for guessing who makes money from providing a safe export corridor for Afghan narcotics
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