Hmm, I wonder why the US wanted this guy so bad, lemme just pop over to Wikipedia real quick....
In July 2000, Taliban leader Mohammed Omar, in an effort to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three-quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time. The ban was effective only briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2002.
Its totally fucked. Heroin only became big in Afghanistan in the first place as a direct result of the destabilisation of the country by the mujahideen fighters. One of the leaders of one of the mujahideen groups in particular became massively rich from it. And that was one of the factors that allowed the Taliban to rise and gain legitemacy in the country, helping Afghanis fight off the corrupt druglords that were running the country. And the CIA new all about it and turned a blind eye to the drugs of course, even helped them at some points.
Hmm, I wonder why the US wanted this guy so bad, lemme just pop over to Wikipedia real quick....
Hmm :thonk:
Its totally fucked. Heroin only became big in Afghanistan in the first place as a direct result of the destabilisation of the country by the mujahideen fighters. One of the leaders of one of the mujahideen groups in particular became massively rich from it. And that was one of the factors that allowed the Taliban to rise and gain legitemacy in the country, helping Afghanis fight off the corrupt druglords that were running the country. And the CIA new all about it and turned a blind eye to the drugs of course, even helped them at some points.