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Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of heroin, with over 500,000 acres of opium. So why are they burning 20 tons of it?

Learn More:
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/Speci....al%20Projects/SIGAR-
"Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan: After a Decade of Reconstruction and Over $7 Billion in Counternarcotics Efforts, Poppy Cultivation Levels Are at an All-Time High"

UN Office on Drugs and Crime: The Opium Economy in Afghanistan
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/publi....cations/afg_opium_ec
"For more than two millennia, Afghanistan has been at the crossroads of civilizations and a major contributor to world culture. In the past quarter century, the country has also found itself at the crossroads of international terrorist violence and became a major contributor to world narcotics production."

International Affairs Review: Narco-Terrorism in Afghanistan: Counternarcotics and Counterinsurgency
http://www.iar-gwu.org/node/39
"Since the 2001 invasion and the lifting of the Taliban opium ban, opium production in Afghanistan has increased from 70 percent of the overall global illicit opium production to 92 percent today."

Afghanistan Opium Production At Record High Amid Instability, Slowing Economy And High Demand
http://www.ibtimes.com/afghani....stan-opium-productio

Watch More:
The Fight To Save Kobani From ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9pC1aQYE0
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