Canadian troops could target taliban's opium trade

It's about time, it's an open secret that the taliban sell opium to raise money for their jihad. In the taliban's eyes thepractice is a win-win situation for them because they make money off poisoning the populations of non-muslim countries.

But the taliban break the very first rule of any self-respecting drug dealer....don't get high off your own supply. I've heard and read that many taliban fighters are high as kites when they fight NATO soldiers. CBC

Canadian soldiers participating in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan could soon be ordered to hunt down drug lords and attack the country's poppy trade, which is inextricably linked to the Taliban insurgency, Canada's top general says.

So far, Canadian soldiers have not been involved in anti-drug operations in Afghanistan, but that could change, said Walter Natynczyk, Canada's chief of defence staff.[...]

But Natynczyk said the ties between the drug trade and the insurgency are too strong to dismiss any longer, as profits or product often end up directly in the hands of fighters.

"Most times that we have operations, our soldiers, sailors and airmen have found drugs right there with Taliban," he said. "So the nexus between drugs and terror is very, very strong."

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