Monday, August 31, 2009

Cave Headlines | Monday August 31, 2009

StrategyPage.com | Afghan Taliban have lucrative financial arrangements with the heroin gangs, the Pakistan Taliban get lesser amounts of cash by helping the heroin smuggling and distribution inside Pakistan, and into India and elsewhere in the region.

Afghanistan's opium output has risen more than 40-fold since the invasion 8 years ago, according to the United Nations' figures | The conflict-torn country supplies more than 90 percent of the world's heroin.