U.S. CENTCOM: Taliban Is a Narco-Terror Group, ‘Not a Popular Insurgency’

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U.S. CENTCOM: Taliban Is a Narco-Terror Group, ‘Not a Popular Insurgency’

(CNSNews.com) - The Taliban is transitioning from an ideologically-inspired group to a narco-terror group, Sen. Joni Earnst (R-Iowa) told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday.

She asked Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command, what the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan to cut off the Taliban's drug-funding streams.

 
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