Taliban Heroin Gang and the Failed War on Afghanistan's Opium

The Underworld Podcast

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Over the last two decades, the Taliban have moved from simply taxing Afghanistan's opium farmers to controlling every link in the chain of the world's biggest heroin supply. In Afghanistan's Opium Nation, we took you through the history of Afghanistan's opium and heroin industry up until the American invasion in 2001. In this episode, we recap the last 20 years of failed efforts to curtail the country's drug trade, detailing how US allies ramped up their growing and trafficking efforts just as the Taliban were doing the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	Summer 2014 An early morning raid on a two-car convoy in the lawless and arid landscape of
1:07.1	southern Afghanistan.
1:09.3	Afghan Special Ops are in a helicopter and they've zeroed in on the cars. This is a popular superhighway as the
1:15.3	New York Times article calls it for smugglers of all types and insurgents. It connects
1:19.9	Nimru's province, a big transshipment point for all sorts of contraband with Hellman province. N
1:23.9	Nemruu's province, big trans shipment point for all sorts of contraband with Hellman province.
1:24.8	Over 50% of Afghanistan's opium is concentrated.
1:28.8	Depending on the year, the numbers fluctuate, but by most estimates this would have it mean that around 40% of the world's heroin supply originates in Helmin province these days.
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