NATO to Target Herion Traffickers in Afghanistan

NATO wakes up and decides to start targeting herion traffickers in Afghanistan. It's well known that a lot of the money made from selling herion goes to the taliban and al Qaida so they may continue on fighting NATO in Afghanistan.

Cut off one of their money supplies. The Age

NATO forces in Afghanistan will step up attacks on drug lords and narcotics traffickers who are supporting a Taliban insurgency that has rebounded in the past year, according to the top US commander in Afghanistan.

General David McKiernan also warned on Wednesday that US forces can't copy a central element of military success in Iraq — recruiting local tribes to support them — because the Afghan tribal structure has been shattered by 30 years of war.

He made it clear that NATO's International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, was not going to eradicate poppy crops. Afghanistan is the world's top grower of opium poppies, which are processed into heroin.

But by drawing a clear link between the narcotics trade and the insurgency, General McKiernan was outlining what could be an important and expanding role for US and NATO troops as they seek to eliminate a source of money and weapons for the insurgency.

I would the herion trade and the insurgency are one in the same....