in an attempt to boost the taliban image, its leader mohammed omar, and opium poppy cultivation, anywhere on us canister soil the over live it s you get on the little some of them minimum the soonest. the limits of the question got the, what does this is this of what they re looking for money for, which is or still get a and he ll be nipple supply on the fish for me to green us and they come for literally i need to go with but then i woke up or just ship with my variables, not the pursues. this video was filmed in 2015. the numbers have only grown since then. i ve got this down. is nelda undisputed, a world leader in opium production. the field acreage has now expanded to rival the size of some european countries. afghanistan confidently holds 1st place in harrowing production. that lead is growing every year in by 2009. the corruption index is still the lowest or the next to lois. how does the african economies survive through opium? through drug trade? there were attempts t
the oh oh, i came in the year before the september 11th attacks, when the taliban were in power, afghanistan produced literally 0 heroin, no heroine. and after the 911 attacks, they got to a point by 2010 where they were producing 93 percent of the world. terran, i know this because i was the chief investigator on the senate foreign relations committee staff at the time. and i went to afghanistan in 2009 to study the problem . the positive trouble is called polar soft, which means does money. a favorite haunt, the drug addicts. it s easy to buy, how she s opium or heroine here. neither during the soviet presence in afghanistan, nor after it under the taliban could this possibly have been imaginable ah, in 2000, in an attempt to boost the taliban image, its leader mohammed omar, and opium poppy cultivation, anywhere on us canister soil. with this you get on got the little some of them minimum the soonest. the limits of the question got the, what does, what is this is this of w
we keep getting back to the story because of and new details emerging. we send our own request to the us intelligence for whether they can comment on that. we re waiting for their reply and possibly we ll also get reaction to this from other high ranking officials here in russia and ukraine or in the us europe today. the next on our st. national and c, u. k. it s say news use hughes with host culture. now hughes ah, join me every 1st on the alex simon show. and i ll be speaking to guess in the world. the politic sport business. i m show business. i ll see you then me the, the taliban continued their victory lab following the takeover of afghanistan. but this latest round being the announcement of 4 of the highest and government offices being filled with the same prisoners involved in the 2014 fall before army dessert or that we are golf. now we will bring you the latest on who the taliban is putting into power and give you the $360.00 view of the issue. then a prime minister
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mayers are getting creative and how to curtail, especially in the cities who are choosing to reduce law enforcement budgets as well . we will tell you about one city who has decided that while crime can pay their, hoping the city can pay more over you this unorthodox approach and the chances of it actually working. i m going to use these stories and more on today s news right here on our t america, let s get started. ah, well, the taliban is announcing a top leadership positions filling in post with veterans of the group who oversaw the 20 year fight against the united states. and many of the names involved are very familiar to the u. s. government ortiz, john had a, takes a closer look lead the new taliban government. pretty much same as the old taliban government. hardliners and heavy weights who oversaw the fight against the united states in afghan. stan, some with ties to al qaeda are now in key leadership positions in the countries new caretaker government, 3 men stand o