UN reports that between 6000 to 8000 tons of opium, worth about $3.2 billion on the market, is currently missing. Officials believe the taliban are hiding the opium to artificially prop up herion prices, or they might be stockpilling the drug for lean times. TimeIf international drug- and law-enforcement officials are right, the Taliban might be hiding up to $3.2 billion worth of opium inside Afghanistan, potentially causing huge complications for NATO's decision this month to attack Afghanistan's opium laboratories and smuggling networks. If it exists, the drug stockpile would also have a major bearing on Afghan officials' tentative peace talks with the Taliban, which are favored by U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus and both U.S. presidential candidates.
I would guess the opium is hidden in Pakistan...
According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, between 6,000 and 8,000 tons of opium have vanished during the past three years somewhere between the poppy fields of Afghanistan — which produce about 93% of the world's opium — and the world market. That's enough to supply all the world's heroin addicts for nearly two years. The whereabouts of the missing opium is a mystery so far, but international drug- and law-enforcement agencies say they believe the Taliban has begun to stockpile large quantities of the drug, which is worth about $464,000 per ton once it is exported from Afghanistan. When British forces recently occupied Musikalia in Helmand province, they uncovered a stockpile of 45 tons of opium. But that's a tiny fraction of what has disappeared. "Where is it? We have been asking," says Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. drug office. He recently appealed to NATO forces and Western intelligence officers to launch an aggressive hunt for the opium. It might sound like good news that so much opium has disappeared from the world drug market, but Costa believes the missing opium is a potential time bomb, and many law-enforcement officials agree. That's because the Taliban is believed to be "stockpiling to control the prices," says a spokesman for Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, who confirmed that NATO forces have uncovered Taliban stockpiles of opium. Despite the bumper opium harvests, the street price of heroin remains a costly $67 per g in European cities, and the price Afghan farmers charge for their opium has remained about $70 per kg (about $33 per lb.). If the entire crop had been sold during the past two years, "the prices should have collapsed," says Costa. "But there has been no price collapse."
The Taliban grow no opium themselves but earn millions by levying a 10% tithe on farmers. Since heroin use is dropping steadily in the West, the value of opium is diminishing — that's why officials are especially alarmed by the Taliban's stockpiles. "Who would have reasons to hold on to a devalued stock? People who have mischief in mind," says Costa. He believes that the Taliban is saving the opium for lean times. He says the hundreds of Afghans working for the U.N. drug office in southern Afghanistan have recently found notices posted by the Taliban advising farmers not to grow opium this year. A similar edict by the Taliban during its last year in power, in 2001, resulted in tight supplies and soaring prices on the world market. "This is classic market manipulation," Costa says.
The Taliban could also be stockpiling drugs in preparation for a possible onslaught on Afghanistan's drug lords. NATO defense ministers agreed at a summit in Budapest this month to use their soldiers in Afghanistan for the first time to attack opium laboratories and smuggling convoys, rather than simply destroy opium crops.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Taliban hiding $3.2 billion worth of opium
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Afghan Opium Production Falls
A report by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime says that opium cultivation in Afghanistan has dropped 19% or down to 157000 hectares from 193000 hectares in 07. However, Opium production has only dropped 6%, 8200 kg to 7700 kg because of a higher yield this year. Part of the reason for the decreased cultivation of opium is because of a famine in north west Afghanistan.
Most of the opium cultivation/production occurs in the south eastern provinces of Afghanistan where the taliban still operate. It is interesting to note that areas of heavy opium production correlate with taliban activity or vice versa. 
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Another interesting note is that for the past several years, opium production has far exceeded world opium demand. Yet the price for opium has not fallen significantly. In other words, someone is withholding huge quantities of opium from the market to keep prices up. Sound familiar? *Cough* oil *cough*
Follow this link to read the whole UN report.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
U.S. Report Finds Declines in Opium in Afghanistan
Note how cultivation of opium correlates with taliban activity. Embassy of Afghanistan
A report released today by the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) found that opium production in Afghanistan declined by 31 percent in 2008. The report also found that opium cultivation experienced a similar drop of 22 percent.....
According to the 2008 U.S. Afghanistan Poppy Cultivation and Opium Production Estimate, opium production reached 5,500 metric tons in 2008, down from 8,000 metric tons in 2007. Additionally, poppy cultivation fell to 157,000 hectares in 2008, a decrease from the 202,000 hectares cultivated in 2007. The report declared that the number of provinces that are now poppy-free increased from 15 in 2007 to 18 in 2008 (of 34 provinces), and that opium poppy cultivation has all but been eradicated in most of Afghanistan’s North and East.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Good News: Afghan Opium Trade Reaches $4 Billion
I just have one word to say...Napalm. The Age
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AFGHAN opium poppy cultivation grew 17% last year, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released by the United Nations.
It continues a six-year expansion of the country's drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92%. Afghanistan's emergence as the world's largest supplier of opium and heroin represents a serious setback to US policy in the region.The Taliban earned $US200 million ($A208 million) to $US400 million last year from poppy growers and drug traffickers in areas under its control, said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.
He estimates that Afghan poppy farmers and drug traffickers last year earned about $US4 billion, half of the country's national income.
Afghanistan's high-yielding variety of opium poppies has helped double global opium production since 2005.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Trying to Bring Down the Taliban's Cash Cow
Some leading law enforcement officials believe the Taliban is facilitating the heroin trade because of the drug's crippling effects on Western societies, which are seen as enemy states under infidel regimes. The Australian
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SOON before Mick Keelty arrived in Afghanistan last week, a violent jailbreak underlined the tough challenge the Australian Federal Police chief's men face on terror's front line. Late last year, a small group of AFP officers quietly slipped into Afghanistan to launch a mission even more ambitious than the Australian Defence Force's efforts to defeat al-Qa'ida. They were put in charge of an international bid to sharply restrict the Taliban's income by eliminating the cultivation and export of opium, the main source of the terror group's wealth.
Six years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban is again flush with funds from opium poppies that are the main source for the world's heroin supply. An estimated 93 per cent of the globe's heroin is sourced from Afghanistan.
As the US-led coalition's commando military units - Australians prominent among them - have been taking the fight to al-Qa'ida and Taliban militants, Afghan farmers have been tending their opium crops with impunity, often under the protective watch of Taliban chieftains, who turn a blind eye to heroin's lethal consequences worldwide, notwithstanding their puritanical interpretation of Islam.The raw numbers on opium production across Afghanistan show how daunting their task is. Figures supplied to the AFP suggest close to 9300 tonnes of opium were produced in Afghanistan in 2007. So far this year, an estimated 8200 tonnes have been produced.
Worth it to read the whole thing.
The cultivation spike comes as the reinvigorated Taliban, accompanied by slowly growing numbers of foreigners who adhere to the violent form of jihad espoused by Osama bin Laden, roams Afghanistan's landscape with increasing confidence. As the jihadis rebuild militarily, the flow of heroin continues to grow.
Nearly all the white powder that makes it to Australia comes via ports in neighbouring Pakistan after a long overland journey. "It is coming out on mules protected by Taliban soldiers," Keelty says. "From there it makes its way to Australia, typically by freighter."
Friday, February 29, 2008
Record High Afghan Opium Production
All the money generated from the sale of opium, used to produce heroin, is going to fund the taliban. In fact the crop is so important to the taliban that they're willing to fight and die for it. According to a document from the State department opium production in Afghanistan is at a record high.
Opium isn't the only drug the taliban sell. It is also worth while to point out that the drug trade that has funded the taliban and other terrorists started before the Afghan war in 2001.
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WASHINGTON — Record illegal drug production in Afghanistan supplies the Taliban insurgency with money and arms and the U.S.-backed government must take direct, prompt action against poppy growers, a State Department report said Friday.
Afghan farmers grew more poppies for opium in 2007 than ever before, the second year in a row of record production in the nation the United States invaded after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The drug trade deters progress toward a stable, economically independent democracy, the report said.The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report cited strong links between the narcotics trade and the anti-government insurgency. The largest and best-known insurgent group -- the hard-line Taliban -- benefits with money and weapons while offering protection to growers and traffickers, the report said.
"Eliminating narcotics cultivation and trafficking in Afghanistan will require a long-term national and international commitment," the State Department said.
"The Afghan government must take decisive action against poppy cultivation soon to turn back the drug threat before its further growth and consolidation make it even more difficult to defeat."
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Taliban earning between $200 & 300 million from opium trade
NATO can no longer turn a blind eye to the opium trade. Targeting the opium trade in AFghanistan will seriously affect the taliban's finances. You can defeat one with defeating the other. Indian ExpressNew Delhi: Linking prevailing security scenario with illicit opium cultivation in Afghanistan, United Nations said the Taliban are earning 200 to 300 million dollars annually from a surcharge it levies on illegal trade in that country.
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that "the Taliban have an annual revenue of between USD 200-300 million from a surcharge levied on illicit drug trade".
This was revealed by International Narcotics Control Board in its report for the year 2008. The report was released today.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Afghan Police Seize 43 Tonnes of Drugs
Just a drop in the Ocean. The most recent numbers show that Afghanistan produced 5,644 metric tons of opium in 2006. Reuters
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan counter narcotics police have seized 44 tonnes of heroin and opium in the last three months, a big achievement in the fight against record-breaking drug production, a top government official said on Sunday.
Afghanistan's poppy fields produced 93 percent of the world's opium last year, with more land under drug cultivation than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined, the United Nations says.
But Afghan authorities say they are making some progress in cutting drug production, with more provinces expected to be declared poppy-free this year. A poor poppy harvest and high wheat prices are also expected to discourage drug production."We have seized more than one tonne of heroin, 43 tonnes of opium and 256 tonnes of cannabis in the past three months from all over Afghanistan," Deputy Interior Minister General Dawood Dawood told reporters in the Afghan capital Kabul.
"Around 463 cases of people involved in drugs issues have been finalized. That includes foreign and Afghan drug traffickers," he said.
Illegal drugs are estimated to be worth more than $3 billion a year to the Afghan economy. That money helps fuel official corruption and also helps the Taliban insurgency through a 10 percent tax the militants impose on poppy farmers.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Scores killed in Afghan anti drugs operation
The funny thing is that the Taliban are passionately against drug use !
Yet they run one of the Biggest drug trades in the world !
Hypocrites ? Yep , but they can justify it in their own minds !
BBC
More than 60 militants and drug traffickers have been killed in Helmand province during a three-day raid, the Afghan government says.
They said more than 16 tonnes of drugs were seized, together with weapons, explosives and suicide vests.
Afghan troops destroyed two sites at which drugs were produced.
They also freed several villagers who had been kidnapped by the militants for allegedly co-operating with the government.
Afghanistan produces 90% of the world's opium and the drugs trade is a key source of funding for the insurgency.
Coalition forces are battling militants in opium-producing areas of the south.
Last year the UN said corruption, lawlessness and uncontrolled borders result in only 2% of Afghan opiates being seized locally.
UN findings say an opium market worth $65bn (£39bn) funds global terrorism, caters to 15 million addicts and kills 100,000 people every year.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Taliban bankrolled by crime, al Qaida bankrolled by islamic charities
"With respect to the Taliban, the narco dollars are a major if not majority of their funding sources ... add in there as well extortion and kidnapping,...With Al Qaeda I think it is a mixed bag. They draw benefits from the Taliban but they are not relying wholesale on narcotics. They still rely on sympathetic donors and, to a certain extent, charities.'"
The taliban being bankrolled by the heroin trade, extortion, kidnapping, marble and timber isn't exactly news but always worth to point out.
Al Qaida being bankrolled by charities isn't news either but isn't it interesting that the ACLU condemns the Feds targeting islamic charities that transfer money to terrorist organizations? The Toronto Star
Afghanistan produces more opium than any other country in the world. The Taliban charges drug kingpins to move the opium through its territory, for what the United Nations estimates could run upward of $340 million annually.
The Taliban euphemistically refers to extortion money as tolls, taxes or even zakat, the 2.5 per cent donation to charity that Islam requires. A kidnapped Pakistani businessman had to pay more than $140,000 in ransom. When his Taliban captors freed him, he said, they told him, "Think of this as your zakat. Now your place in heaven is guaranteed.''
Money from drugs and criminal gangs make up roughly 85 to 90 per cent of Taliban revenue, estimates John Solomon, a terrorism expert with U.S. Military Academy's Counter Terrorism Center. In Pakistan alone, Owais Ghani, governor of northwest Pakistan, puts the Taliban's annual earnings at roughly $50 million.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
12 Dead in Afghanistan
9 civilians and 3 soldiers killed in violence in Afghanistan. Again, the civilians get the brunt of the taliban's rage. AFP
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KABUL (AFP) — Twelve people including three foreign soldiers were killed in a spate of bombings and gun battles in Afghanistan, including one firefight between police and opium growers, officials said Wednesday.
The worst gun battle erupted when farmers, whom police said were linked to "armed opposition groups" -- a reference to Taliban and other rebels -- resisted anti-drugs forces trying to destroy their illegal but lucrative crop.
A policeman and four locals were killed in the fight in Laghman province's Alishing area, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) northeast of Kabul, provincial government spokesman Wakil Atak said. Five policemen were wounded, he said.
Provincial police chief Abdul Karim Omaryar confirmed that four locals were killed but said only two policemen were hurt and none killed."I am sure they were elements from the armed opposition groups," he said of the locals.
Afghanistan is the world's top producer of opium, accounting for more than 90 percent of global supply worth about four billion dollars.
Officials say profits from the booming drugs trade in part fund an insurgency by the Taliban, who were in government between 1996 and 2001, and other radical factions.
Most of the violence takes place in southern and eastern Afghanistan, areas bordering Pakistan's tribal areas where radical rebels, including those from Al-Qaeda, are said to have bases.
Friday, February 6, 2009
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. CBCCanadian 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.
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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."
Thursday, May 21, 2009
34 taliban terrorist scum killed
Thirty four taliban killed and 16.5 tons of heroin seized. AFP
KABUL (AFP) — Troops killed 34 Taliban rebels and seized 15 tonnes of drugs during an ongoing operation in southern Afghanistan's insurgent stronghold of Helmand, the US military said Thursday.[...]
"A total of 34 militants have been killed," the statement said. "The most recent enemy deaths were caused by a series of precision air strikes during heavy fighting in the area."[...]
The latest battle started when troops began to secure an area called Loy Cherah Bazaar, which the statement said was a militant stronghold and drugs-processing hub.
They found at the bazaar two "war rooms" stocked with maps, communication equipment, Russian-made night vision goggles, US military vehicle parts and weapons, the statement said.
The troops in the Marja operation had uncovered 15,000 kg of high-grade narcotics, including 14,750 kg of black tar opium, 11 kg of processed heroin and 30 kg of morphine.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Taliban, Marines Exchange Fire as Major Battle Looms
My bet is that some of the lower level Taliban are causing a distraction for the higher up's , so they can have a chance to find some Burqa's to escape in !
Foxnews
NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines and Taliban insurgents exchanged gunfire Thursday on the outskirts of Marjah, a southern militant stronghold where American and Afghan forces are expected to launch a major attack in the coming days.
To the north, a U.S.-Afghan force led by the U.S. Army's 5th Stryker Brigade linked up with Marines on Thursday, closing off a Taliban escape route to the nearby major city of Lashkar Gah.
No casualties were reported in the scattered clashes, which broke out as Marines moved ever closer to the edge of the farming community of 80,000 people, the linchpin of Taliban influence in the opium poppy producing province of Helmand.
Marines said the Taliban defenders were apparently trying to draw the Americans into a bigger fight before the U.S. was ready to launch the main attack.
"They're trying to draw us in," said Capt. Joshua Winfrey, 30, of Tulsa, Okla., commander of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines.
Through much of the day, insurgents repeatedly fired rockets and mortars at the American and Afghan units poised in foxholes around the town, 380 miles southwest of Kabul.
"I am not surprised at all that this is taking place," said the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Brian Christmas. "We are touching their trigger-line," referring to the outer rim of the Taliban defenses.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
U.S., Afghan forces kill 60 in drug raid: military
Aw ! Now the Taliban is not going to have as much money to import their Goats for those crazy weekend Parties ! Maybe they will settle for Sheep instead !
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces have killed 60 militants,
almost half in air strikes, and seized one of the country's largest
ever drug caches over a four-day operation in southern Helmand
province, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
The military had said earlier in the operation that 34 militants had been killed.
The troops were fighting for control of Loy Cherah Bazaar in
Helmand's Marjeh city, where they found 75 tonnes of poppy seeds, more
than 17 tonnes of morphine, opium and heroin, and caches of weapons and
equipment, the military said in a statement.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Coalition Kills 32 Militants in Afghanistan
Now for some good news.
You can always count on GM to forward good news. Live LeakWASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed 32 militants and captured 10 suspected militants today and yesterday during operations to disrupt terrorist networks in Afghanistan, military officials said.
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Coalition forces were fired on today while clearing a compound believed to be a command and control center for roadside bombs in Kandahar province. Forces returned fire, ki More..lling 15 insurgents and detaining six.
Also today, militants fired on coalition and Afghan forces with machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire in Helmand province. The forces returned fire, killing seven militants. During the operation, forces protected more than 300 local villagers from enemy fire, officials said.
Forces searched the area and seized caches that included bomb-making materials, homemade explosives, mortar rounds and 175 pounds of opium.
Yesterday, coalition forces targeted a suspected senior Taliban commander in Paktia province. The man, believed to be a liaison between the al-Qaida and Taliban terrorist networks, is suspected of aiding movement of foreign fighters into Afghanistan, officials said.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
17 taliban terrorist scum killed and tonnes of herion seized
Seventeen taliban were killed and over 50 tonnes of herion was seized in an US operation in Helmand Province.
Napalm all the poppy fields, carpet bomb Waziristan, nuke Quetta, just pretend that Afghanistan and Pakistan is 1945 Japan. AFP
KABUL — US and Afghan forces seized 50 tonnes of opium and killed 17 Taliban on Wednesday, the defence ministry said, as US President Barack Obama mulled his options for the increasingly war-torn country.[...]
In the five-hour operation that began at 11:00 am (0630 GMT), the soldiers dropped from helicopters into the Kajaki district of Helmand province, source of most of the world's heroin, the spokesman said.
"We seized and destroyed 30 tonnes of fertiliser, 1,000 boxes of AK-47 and TK machinegun bullets and other weapons," he said, adding that a factory for making remote-controlled bombs was also destroyed.
"Seventeen Taliban were killed, three were arrested alive," he said.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Video shows taliban with US ammo
This isn't the first report of the taliban possessing American weapons and ammo. Ammunition destined for the Afghan security forces is occasionally diverted to the taliban by sympathizers within the Afghan forces. The taliban also regularly raid NATO supply convoy traveling from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Oh yeah, and a lot of that ammonium nitrate, fertilizer, used for road side bombs was destined for Afghan farmers who either use it to grow opium or give it to the taliban.
From Yahoo! News
KABUL – Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly firefight that killed eight troops.[...]Here's the video from al Jazeera.
The Al-Jazeera video showed insurgents handling weapons, including anti-personnel mines with U.S. markings on them, but it was unclear when the video had been filmed. The television station reported that insurgents said they seized the weapons from two U.S. remote outposts in Nuristan province.
The ammunition could be used against U.S. and Afghan forces, although the amount shown was not extensive. However, the footage will no doubt be used by insurgent propagandists to promote their "victory" over the Americans and encourage their supporters.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
150 Taliban Killed in Offensive
The 3500 Marines that just started their tour in AFghanistan aren't fucking about. In the past week, 150 taliban have been killed. Thats a lot of raisins for the dead taliban, 10800 to be exact. AFP
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — International and Afghan troops forged ahead with an offensive against the Taliban near the Pakistan border on Tuesday, with a governor insisting 150 rebels had been killed in the past week.
US Marines and British troops under NATO command launched a significant new operation two weeks ago in Garmser district in southern Helmand province, a key battleground for a Taliban-led insurgency and an opium-producing centre.
Soldiers in a separate US-led coalition have also reported several engagements in the area in the past week. They said Tuesday they had killed a dozen rebels in Garmser on Monday.The international forces helping Afghanistan fight an insurgency led by the Al-Qaeda-backed Taliban normally do not issue death tolls from their engagements, saying they want to avoid a "body count."
But Helmand governor Gulab Mangal told AFP on Tuesday that 150 Islamic rebels, most of whom he said were Al-Qaeda-linked Arab and Pakistani fighters, had been killed in military action in Garmser in the past week.
"In the past seven, eight days, we have killed about 150 insurgents, most of them foreign fighters," he said, citing "intelligence."
"We have intelligence reports that more than 500 enemy fighters, most of them foreign terrorists, are in the district," he said. "The operation will continue until the district is cleared of these destructive elements."
The Afghan army, operating with some of the international deployments, could not be reached for comment. NATO's International Security Assistance Force could not verify the numbers.
"The Marines continue to gain ground down in Helmand," ISAF Major Martin O'Donnell told AFP, adding that he could not comment on death tolls.
The Marines said: "While we are continuing operations to clear the Taliban from the Garmser district, it is not ISAF nor US Military policy to comment on enemy casualties as we do not consider this a reliable measure of success."
Friday, August 8, 2008
Canadian Troops Seize Drugs & Weapons in Afghanistan
In a secret mission that included Canadian troops, American, British and Afghan, an unspecified amount of drugs, weapons and bomb-making material were seized. Unfortunately no terrorists were reported killed in the operation. National Post
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Canadian soldiers appear to have caught the Taliban off guard in a large multi-national operation in the lawless region of western Kandahar province where insurgents have usually felt relatively safe.
In a secret mission that started last week, but was only just now made public, Canadians joined forces with American, British and Afghan forces to drive into the notorious Maywand district, a centre of Afghanistan's opium industry.
Military officials won't reveal how many troops are taking part in the ongoing operation but say they have so far seized large quantities of bomb-making equipment and drugs."Narcotics, weapons, all the paraphernalia you would associate with insurgents we did find out there,"
said Canadian Maj. Fraser Auld.
The operation is officially called "Roob Unyip Janubi" - or "Southern Beast" in Pashto -- but soldiers have already dubbed it "Ruby Januby."
Military spokesman Capt. Chris Quinlan said troops believe the Maywand District is where a large amount ofbombs get made before being shipped to other areas of the country.
"So we certainly anticipate that seizing bomb making supplies in Maywand will have an effect on what will show up in Zhari in the future," he said.
