The 2009 Afghanistan version (except we really don't want to catch these guys; this shit-show fooleys for the 'murkn people):
Related propaganda: Afghans Need Taliban Return
That helps sell the war justification.
"US attacks Afghan drug traffickers" by Associated Press | August 11, 2009
KABUL - A US military “kill or capture’’ list of 367 wanted insurgents in Afghanistan includes 50 major drug traffickers who give money to Taliban militants, US military commanders told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
That the same Taliban that wiped out the opium crop in their fundamentalist zeal?
Oh.
US and NATO troops are attacking drug warehouses and militant-linked narcotics dealers in Afghanistan for the first time this year, a new strategy to counter the country’s booming opium poppy and heroin trade.
Yeah, when they aren't guarding them.
NATO defense ministers approved the targeted drug raids late last year, saying the link between Taliban insurgents and the drug trade was clear. According to a report to be issued by the committee this week, US commanders have no restrictions on the use of force against the targets, “which means they can be killed or captured on the battlefield,’’ the report states.
Just another excuse to justify mass murder of innocent people. We been there eight years and the drug business is flourishing as never before. Are you that stoo-pid, 'murka? Must be smoking opium!
When the nexus between a drug trafficker and the insurgency is clear, the drug trafficker is put on a list of insurgent leaders wanted by US forces, said Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, the top US spokesman in Afghanistan. “The list.... is the link between the narco industry and the militants,’’ Smith said yesterday.
Placement on this target list requires two verifiable human sources and “substantial additional evidence,’’ the report says.
Oh, I'm convinced now. Not like tribal rivalries, petty politics, or personal vindictiveness ever filled the Afghan jails the U.S. runs.
For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go HERE
The US military does not conduct operations against narcotics dealers who are not involved in the insurgency, because those individuals are dealt with by law enforcement agencies, according to Captain Elizabeth Mathias, a US military spokeswoman.
Translation: WE PROTECT OUR DRUG DEALING ASSETS!
“It’s terrorists with links to the drug trade rather than drug traffickers with links to terrorism,’’ said Lieutenant Colonel Todd Vician, another US military spokesman....
You say po-tay-toe, I say po-tah-toe....
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And they prove it every day.
