former journalist, Associated Press and ABC News
Former long-time journalist for the Associated Press and ABC News; author of Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
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Gretchen Peters
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FROM Gretchen Peters
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Trying to Root Out the Taliban In what's being called a major coup in the war against the Taliban, the group's top military commander reportedly has been captured and has spent the past week being interrogated. The New York Times broke the story that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was seized in a joint operation of US and Pakistani forces. Can he shed light on how the Taliban operates? Will he lead the US to other prime Taliban leaders? What impact might his detention have on the new offensive the US and NATO launched in southern Afghanistan just a few days ago?
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Trying to Root Out the Taliban In what's being called a major coup in the war against the Taliban, the group's top military commander reportedly has been captured and has spent the past week being interrogated. The New York Times broke the story that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was seized in a joint operation of US and Pakistani forces. Can he shed light on how the Taliban operates? Will he lead the US to other prime Taliban leaders? What impact might his detention have on the new offensive the US and NATO launched in southern Afghanistan just a few days ago?
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CIA Pays Hamid Karzai's Brother, Says New York Times Today's New York Times reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the CIA payroll for the past eight years. Not only is he the brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, he's long been a suspected player in the country's opium trade. Gretchen Peters, who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for Associated Press and ABC News, is author of Seeds of Terror : How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Which Way, L.A.?
Following the Opium Money in Afghanistan A Senate committee says two federal agencies have lowered conventional estimates of how much drug money is going to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency say the Taliban get about $70 million a year from Afghanistan's opium poppies, much less than the $400 million estimated by the UN last year. Al Qaeda may not be getting much at all. Gretchen Peters is author of Seeds of Terror , which argues that both religious terrorist groups have evolved into narco-terrorist syndicates with religious overtones.
To the Point
Following the Opium Money in Afghanistan A Senate committee says two federal agencies have lowered conventional estimates of how much drug money is going to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency say the Taliban get about $70 million a year from Afghanistan's opium poppies, much less than the $400 million estimated by the UN last year. Al Qaeda may not be getting much at all. Gretchen Peters is author of Seeds of Terror , which argues that both religious terrorist groups have evolved into narco-terrorist syndicates with religious overtones.
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