June 12, 2008

Big drug bust in Afghanistan

Looks like the Taliban may be experiencing a bit of a cash-flow problem in the next year or two. About �200 million worth ($750 million USD). From the UK Telegraph:
World's biggest drug seizure in Afghanistan
About 260 tons of narcotics were found in trenches and bunkers in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.

No previous haul comes close to matching this find, which weighed roughly the same as 30 double-decker buses.

The previous record was set by Colombia's security forces when they uncovered 81 tons of coca.

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said: "This was the largest ever single find of narcotics in history. It reflects the efforts of the Afghan government against the drug trade, and was so large that two aircraft were brought in to destroy the underground bunker in which the hashish was being stored."
The only problem is that Hashish is not the primary crop, Opium is. Again, the Telegraph:
But Afghanistan's biggest drug problem is not hashish of the sort that was found yesterday. Instead, opium is the major concern.

Last year, Afghans grew 9,000 tons of raw opium, enough to be refined into 880 tons of heroin, or 93 per cent of the world's supply.
Still, the Hashish was a wonderful find and the Heroin is out there and will be found. It has to leave the country somehow and the government is now actively against its trade... Posted by DaveH at June 12, 2008 7:23 PM
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