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Quote by: Robert Marsh II Nono: This is the best explanation I can give, and needs to be incorporated with my previous post #8: >>>> Afghanistan: Opium Trade Control ($$$)! Taliban, Al Qaeda and various sub-insurgency groups had based their operations inside Afghanistan, in order to take control of the opium trade for financing insurgency operations worldwide. Q: Why Afghanistan? A: Opium control to finance global terrorism network. Terrorism's Harvest - TIME The U.S., NATO, and Coalition Forces had to stop this enemy from taking control of the Afghanistan government, and cut off its supply-line to opium trade financing revenue ($$$). NATO - Topic: Afghanistan, NATO's role in War in Afghanistan - CNN.com Taliban leader boasts of eventual victory in Afghanistan - CNN.com Taliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Afghanistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban The Washington Independent » Opium, al-Qaeda and the Helmand ‘Sideshow’

from your wiki link

Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, the Taliban's top drug official in Nangarhar, said the ban would remain regardless of whether the Taliban received aid or international recognition. "It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country," he said. "Whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country."[62] However, with the 2001 US/Northern Alliance expulsion of the Taliban, opium cultivation has increased in the southern provinces liberated from the Taliban control,[64] and by 2005 production was 87% of the world's opium supply,[65] rising to 90% in 2006

so that arguement doesnt hold up