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We face a wave of cheap Taliban heroin
Afghanistan currently supplies 90 per cent of the world’s illegal opium — but do not expect a crackdown the new fundamentalist government: it will be ramping up production for much-needed cash, warns STEVEN WALKER
The Taliban are involved in every part of the operation, growing, cultivating and trafficking opium and heroin around the world, as well as “taxing” cultivators and drug labs and charging smugglers fees for shipments

AS the US and British surrender to the Taliban and scuttle back home with their tails between their legs, they join a long list of the world’s greatest powers whose missions in Afghanistan ended in failure.

Since the days of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, many have sought to control the territory now known as Afghanistan.

The country has long been known as the “graveyard of empires,” evoking its reputation for thwarting the expansionist ambitions of occupiers like imperial Britain.

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