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Afghan insurgents financed by opium
The top US General in Afghanistan stated that 40 percent of the Afghan insurgency is being financed by opium sales.
From AFP:
The top US general in Afghanistan said Thursday he estimated that Afghanistan’s rampant opium poppy cultivation was funding up to 40 percent of the Taliban-led insurgency.
General Dan McNeill, head of the NATO-led International Security [...]
95 percent of world’s poppy is supplied by Afghanistan
Afghanistan is simply dominating the world poppy market.
From the Associated Press:
U.N. figures to be released in September are expected to show that Afghanistan’s poppy production has risen up to 15 percent since 2006 and that the country now accounts for 95 percent of the world’s total crop, 3 percentage points more than last year, according [...]
