Afghanistan’s US-run government was the world’s largest producer and exporter of opium, morphine, and the end-product, heroin. As it did after first seizing power in the mid-1990’s, Taliban, the Islamic anti-drug and anti-communist movement, is shutting down the Afghan drug trade.  Billions worth of heroin, opium and morphine that had been flowing into Central Asia, … Continue reading Afghanistan: Where’s the Cash?