Did You Know The Taliban Wiped Out Opium Production in 2001?

Question

U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer. (2001)

http://opioids.com/afghanistan/index.html

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Now:

Afghanistan poppy cultivation skyrockets

WASHINGTON - Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070805/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan

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Not once in the article above did the writer say anything about the Taliban wiping out Opium production and instead says the Taliban is using the production to further their agenda.

Comments

Peace

Jim

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Apparently the Taliban and Bin Laden had a very loose relationship at best. What Bin Laden did was not state sanctioned. Yet we treated it as if it was and went to war with a stone age sovereign nation because of that.

As we toot our horns over wiping them out and installing a flimsy government, Result today is opium production is better then pre Taliban levels going into the arms of our children.

Proof positive that making war rarely has the intended outcome.

Peace

Jim

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Quitenewhere

I put in a link that took me one minute to find about the taliban in 2001. The new story is via Yahoo news.

I am not sure what you are trying to infer, but using google is a good source.

Peace

Jim

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Yes Lady Honda, I am Jamal and you are a car

How trite, how very trite of you.

Just so you don't call me something that I am not again, I won't call you a car. Capish.

Next time form a question instead of a statment if addressing me. What you know of me is really nothing, except what you assume and you assume wrong.

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Dsanthony,

It is not for us to be involved in others internal affairs, anymore then any country should be involved in ours. We have forced our will on that country and now we are paying the price through more hatred of us, a flimsy government that will fall, billions wasted and cheaper illegal drugs for our people. Great show, wouldn't ya say. Yes, I am being cynical.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 1

Yes, they wiped out Opium production. They also killed any woman appearing on the street without a Burkha, or any woman who went to school. If we started beheading drug dealers and drug users, our drug problem would end tomorrow.

Answer 2

Are you saying that growing opium is the only way the people can make a living in Afgan.? But the Taliban stopped it and every thing was much better? Our work is not done there. There is a serious cancer of corruption in that area. If that is the source of these vile drugs, and they are hiding and protecting the hideous persona of bin Laden, they are doomed. What do they think they can get away with? Aid and abet a murdering new age Hitler? How dare they desire to kill off all the infidels so their stone age cult can rule the world. These terrorist havens will be eradicated one by one until the free world is safe again.

Answer 3

The Bush administration claims to be targeting Osama bin Laden, who it says masterminded the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (even though it has offered no concrete evidence to back up this accusation), and Afghanistan's Taliban government, which is sheltering him. But as the Economist magazine noted soon after September 11, " [U.S.] policies in Afghanistan a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him." An examination of this history will reveal the extent to which U.S. foreign policy is based on hypocrisy, realpolitik, and the short-term pursuit of narrow interests

Answer 4

Opium production has been used by the taliban, before them, the muhadajeen and the tribes before them that live in the area for a long time. The english tried to wipe it out, they couldnt.
As for the taliban, They harbored Osama Bin Laden and provided aid to al-qieda, They chose their fate when they refused to turn him over. I dont mourn for the loss of the taliban, nor bin laden.
It is enough for me, to keep the taliban from returning to power, and bin laden, off balence.

Answer 5

The "War on Terror" has given a big boost to opium production and the war lords who support the new government are making huge profits.

Answer 6

I crosschecked several internet sources and could not find any news that affirmed the truth of your question. The news I am looking at only confirmed that production has increased 6 fold after only a few years
Strange. If they stopped it, who started it again and ended up the megaproduction of opium products?

Answer 7

The Taliban is an Islamo-Facist regime. Its easy to "make the trains run on time" if you do not care about human rights or the welfare of the people.

Answer 8

that was a dog and pony show and whatever control they did achieve was to harness the profits to finance 9/11 and the methods used are ones with which I hope we are not compfortable.

Answer 9

mmmm i am perplexed....are you 'just plain jim' or 'just plain jimal'? or is that you just can't find anything good about this country? i can't quite figure out your agenda....

i read many stories that refute your premise...the taliban do use the drugs for profits to finance their terrorism.

Answer 10

What do I do now??? I'll die without em'' Screw the Taliban.