Rebuilding the global heroin trade

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday April 30, 2002 00:16 by Cyberista

0nowing--and perhaps caring--very little about 9/11, the US Government has used the terror attacks as a pretext for regaining control of the heroin industry from the Taliban regime that nearly destroyed it long before 9/11.

The biggest problem with the U.S. response to terror is that it has nothing to do with terror. With the debacle commonly known as the "War on terror" moving well past the six month mark, the U.S. government, as represented by the Justice Department and the Pentagon, still have absolutely no idea what happened on September 11, 2001, how it was executed and precisely who's responsible. . . Read the entire piece at Cyberista.

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