It gets much juicier when the operative details what few have had the courage to spell out; the CIA's real agenda in Afghanistan:
The CIA used the heroin proceeds for external operations and so their revenue had been cut off when the Taliban were in power. This way they could always circumvent the US Congress. Heroin; that is why we are still there. Terrorism is engineered through Operation Gladios as this is being used to justify these interventions. Most Western intel agencies are connected to this trade. 93% of the world's heroin comes from Afghanistan. After the US invasion heroin growing was immediately restarted. The military convoys from the Pakistan ports to Afghanistan carried back as backhaul the heroin for world distribution. The Taliban and Osama had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11.
Hekmatyar by the way was never connected to the heroin trade.
Kabul as it stands remains in control of the large population centers and roughly 70% of the country. The rest is Talibanistan. There's no chance of Kabul winning the war. According to the numbers deployed by Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon and its allies have 14,000 troops in Afghanistan. The US contingent -- 9,800 -- will drop to 8,400 by the end of 2016.
Everyone remembers NATO handing over control -- as in being ignominiously defeated by the Taliban -- in 2014. Those remaining US troops on the ground euphemistically provide training and air support to the Afghan Army, and are themselves supported by hordes of military contractors. In parallel, deep in the shades, contractors keep moving the CIA heroin to the West.
The US-NATO combo has just pledged to help fund Afghan security forces to the tune of around $1 billion annually over the next three years. Few will be aware that offers splendorous extra incentive to CIA-run heroin traders plying their wares across the EU.
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