Follow the Poppies : Opium, Afghanistan, and U.S. Foreign Policy http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/follow-poppies-opium-afghanistan-and-us.html

The U.S. used the international heroin network to serve its geopolitical aims in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Political scientist Vladimir Filin, once head of Far West, told an interviewer that this is the case. He noted that, “They control Bagram airfield from where the Air Force transport planes fly to a U.S. base in Germany.” From there, heroin goes to “other U.S. bases and installations in Europe.” Much is shipped to Kosovo where the Kosovo Albanian mafia move it it “back to Germany and other EU countries.”

Mahmut Gareev, who commanded Soviet troops in Afghanistan, said: Americans themselves admit that drugs are often transported out of Afghanistan on American planes. Drug trafficking in Afghanistan brings them about 50 billion dollars a year -- which fully covers the expenses tied to keeping their troops there. Essentially, they are not going to interfere and stop the production of drugs.

comment-also see..Afghan MP Unveils Western Forces' Involvement in Drug Trafficking http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8901301473  Fake war on drugs http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20on%20drugs