Friday, 13. February 2004
Topic: Terror - on February 13, 2004 at 10:01:00 AM CET
Taliban, Al Qaeda Cash in on Afghan Opium
Hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Afghanistan's illicit drug trade end up in the pockets of Islamic militant groups like the Taliban and al Qaeda, the head of the U.N. drug-fighting body said Tuesday. U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa also said there were no signs of the country's rampant opium output abating this year, meaning Afghanistan was in grave danger of becoming a narco-state.
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