Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline © AFP 2017
27.08.2017
By Pepe Escobar
By Pepe Escobar
Persian Gulf harbors array of extremely compromising secrets.
Near the top is Afghan heroin ratline
with (UAE) golden node of trillion dollar heroin money laundering operation
21st century Opium War, Afghanistan feeding heroin market in Russia, Iran, US.
93% of world's opium comes from Afghanistan.
this is not an Afghan Taliban operation.
this is not an Afghan Taliban operation.
Key questions :
- who buys the opium
- refines them into heroin
- controls the export routes
- and sells them for humongous profit
Quick answer : The United States of America
Washington bombed Afghan in 2001
after 16 years never left Afghan
still heroin in occupied Afghan thrives. Cui bono?
Have a SIGAR
exhaustive Afghanistan Opium Survey
Have a SIGAR
exhaustive Afghanistan Opium Survey
steady rise of Afghan opium production and production areas
2016 opium production increased 25 times in relation to 2001 levels
from 185 tons in 2001 to 4800 tons in 2016
report by SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction)
US's Operation Enduring Freedom feeding America's heroin epidemic.
Afghanistan infested by US contractors; 10,000 to tens of thousands.
Afghanistan infested by US contractors; 10,000 to tens of thousands.
Military and ex-military players in heroin ratline
financing of US black ops not under scrutiny by US Congress.
Pentagon-designated "arc of instability"
Pentagon-designated "arc of instability"
Afghan heroin trade
US military convoys from Pakistan used to ship heroin out
much of it raw opium — for distribution as their backhaul.
goal of US was winning the hearts and minds
goal of US was winning the hearts and minds
giving them poppies to grow won their hearts.
CIA operations financed from these profits.
opium wars of Albion in 19th century, paid for tea and silk from India
taxes on these silk and tea financed mighty British Navy
CIA has built itself up based on trillion dollar heroin trade.
military working together with CIA
Drugs
CIA's modus operandi.
Past examples Golden Triangle during Vietnam war
Past examples Golden Triangle during Vietnam war
CIA'S food-for-opium scheme on Hmong tribesmen from Laos
heroin refinery at CIA hq in northern Laos
Air America exports the opium.
story exposed by Prof. Alfred McCoy's "Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
story exposed by Prof. Alfred McCoy's "Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
contemporary book by Italian journalist Enrico Piovesana
the "New Opium War in Afghanistan".
The return of Air America
CIA brought al-Qaeda-ISIS proxies into Afghanistan
The return of Air America
CIA brought al-Qaeda-ISIS proxies into Afghanistan
to justify additional American troops
Trump cornered by his generals.
"foreign fighters" transferred by "unknown helicopters"
"foreign fighters" transferred by "unknown helicopters"
perpetrators of massacre of Hazara Shi'ites in northern Afghanistan
NATO forces controlling Afghan sky stubbornly refuses to notice these
US-trained Afghan Armed Forces and NATO supporting jihadis.
US intel covertly sponsoring "ISIS Khorasan" — in Afghanistan.
Russia very aware of Afghan chapter in New Great Game.
Russian citizens are "collateral damage" of Afghan heroin as much as Americans.
Russia tracking tons of chemicals illegally imported into Afghanistan
from "Italy, France, Netherlands"
US, NATO doing absolutely nothing
Air America never died.
Air America never died.
just relocated from Southeast Asia to Central and South Asia.
My comments : Is anyone in your family an opium or heroin addict? Has anyone in your family been robbed or suffered a snatch theft by a drug addict?
You can thank the Americans in Afghanistan for that.
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