Transcript: Heroin, The Taliban And The 'Seeds Of Terror'

DAVE DAVIES
NPR Fresh Air
05-11-2009
Heroin, The Taliban And The 'Seeds Of Terror'

Host: DAVE DAVIES
Time 12:00-13:00 PM


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DAVE DAVIES, host:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, filling in for Terry Gross.

Much has been written about the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the support a stronger Taliban provides to al-Qaida. But my guest, journalist Gretchen Peters, believes far too little attention is being paid to the growing source of cash for the Taliban: the heroin trade.

She writes that in 2006, Afghanistan produced the largest illegal narcotics crop a modern nation has ever cultivated in a single harvest, ...

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