Major Drug Traffickers In NUG: Massoud

[Hiptullha]

Major Drug Traffickers In NUG: Massoud
Sunday, 27 November 2016 19:04Written by Jawid Jiaratjaie

Ahmad Zia Massoud, the president's special representative on reforms and good governance, on Sunday said in Herat city that major drug traffickers are in the National Unity Government (NUG) and they are preventing security forces from eliminating insurgents.

Massoud, had been speaking at the inauguration ceremony of National Resistance Council and said as long as poppy fields exist in the country, the war will not stop.

"Major drug smugglers are in the government departments and they prevent the plans for elimination of insurgents," he said.

According to Massoud, the smugglers earn billions of dollars a year through trafficking drugs and that the continuation of war is in their interests.

Massoud also said people should help security forces to maintain security.

Provincial governor, Mohammad Asif Rahimi, meanwhile said the four security check posts of the city will expand to fifteen check posts and that the city will be more secure.

He added that Shindand, the most insecure district of the province, is divided into four or five administrative units (districts) and that its security will improve as the new districts' security departments start it work.

"We convinced the ministry of interior to increase security checkpoints to fifteen checkpoints," Rahimi said.

Herat provincial council also said security forces in the province are alert and that Herat resident will never accept insurgent's propaganda.

"Herat people support security forces and never will accept enemies propaganda," said Kamran Alizai, head of the council.

 

[Khanate]

Ahmad Zia Massoud is hoping to takeout rival drug lords with this move, I reckon. We all know his father, Ahmad Shah Massoud, was CIA's favourite drug trafficker when Taliban wiped out opium farming and heroin production.

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Ahmed Shah Masood (The Northern Alliance, Afghanistan)

Drug prohibitionists could have seen their preferred policies pursued to an extreme in Afghanistan nearly 15 years ago. The Taliban banned opium production there in 2000, well before the US invaded after 9/11. Taliban militias destroyed heroin labs and imprisoned thousands of farmers to force the population’s compliance. The results were dramatic. Some 3,300 tons of opium were harvested in 2000, but that figure plummeted to 35 tons a year later.

In 2001, only one region in the country continued extensive cultivation: the 5% of territory the US-backed Northern Alliance controlled. When the Taliban stamped out opium farming, the Northern Alliance tripled their region’s yield. Ex-CIA analyst Melvin Goodman explains in his 2008 book, Failure of Intelligence, that the CIA teamed with “the Tajik-led Northern Alliance” to assault the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks—and before them, when agents “deployed teams to the Panjshir Valley of northern Afghanistan to meet with various tribal warlords, particularly with Ahmed Shah Masood, the head of the Northern Alliance.” At this time, Steve Coll writes in his 2004 book, Ghost Wars, “the CIA’s Counter-Narcotics Center reported that Massoud’s men continued to smuggle large amounts of opium and heroin into Europe.” But Washington would never let a little drug running prevent it from pursuing its foreign policy aims.

By 2005, Afghanistan was turning out some 90% of the world’s opium. And last spring, a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that Afghan opium farming occurs throughout the country at unprecedented levels. Opium poppies are now grown on well over 500,000 acres there—a 36% increase over the 2012 figure. The same report also found that in-country drug use rose from 2009, when 1 million Afghans were drug-dependent, to 2012, when the total had risen to 1.3 million.

The Afghan activist Malalai Joya summed up the US legacy: “Afghanistan, after eight years of occupation, has become a world center for drugs. The drug lords are the only ones with power.” It’s a familiar scene, in other words—at least for those attuned to the reality of Washington’s “drug war.”

Author: Nick Alexandrov is a PhD student in history at George Washington University. He writes regularly for CounterPunch and has contributed to theAsia Times. His previous article for Substance.com was an interview with Dean Becker, the author of the new book, To End the Drug War.

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Source: Meet the CIA’s 10 Favorite Drug Traffickers

 

[shah1398]

According to Massoud, the smugglers earn billions of dollars a year through trafficking drugs and that the continuation of war is in their interests.

Surprisingly for the first time I dont see Pakistan in the line of fire here, otherwise who wud have stopped him from saying that "ISI is the main broker for these scums".

 

[Hiptullha]

Surprisingly for the first time I dont see Pakistan in the line of fire here, otherwise who wud have stopped him from saying that "ISI is the main broker for these scums".

Afghans will point fingers at Pakistan in front of foreign countries. They are well aware that many of their government officials retain links with drug lords and Jihadis, but will only discuss them when the US, EU and UN have their backs turned.

 

[Khanate]

Afghans will point fingers at Pakistan in front of foreign countries. They are well aware that many of their government officials retain links with drug lords and Jihadis, but will only discuss them when the US, EU and UN have their backs turned.

Apparently, ISI is everywhere in Afghanistan and is running the affairs of the country for the last 40 odd years. Afghans take excatly zero responsibility for their own country.