‘The Gloves Are Off’: Top General Says U.S. Demolished $80 Million in Taliban Heroin Labs

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‘The Gloves Are Off’: Top General Says U.S. Demolished $80 Million in Taliban Heroin Labs
Breitbart, Dec 14, 2017, Edwin Mora

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S.-NATO coalition in Afghanistan has pulverized 25 Taliban labs used to process opium and its deadly heroin derivative, depriving the narco-jihadists of $80 million in illegal drug proceeds in the first three weeks of an unprecedented counternarcotics air campaign.

Despite more than $8.5 billion in American taxpayer funds devoted to combating the illegal narcotics trade in Afghanistan since 2001, the country remains the top opium producer in the world.


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