CHAPTER 3

Taliban Insurgency Fueled by Poppy Cultivation

1. Taliban insurgents get poppies by

Growing them themselves

Forcing sharecroppers to grow poppies

Importing them from other countries

Buying them on the black market

2. Cultivation of opium poppies nets

Thousands of dollars

Hundreds of thousands of dollars

Millions of dollars

Tens of millions of dollars

3. Of the world's heroin, Afghan poppies produce

90 percent

75 percent

50 percent

25 percent

4. The real solution to the problem of opium poppies is to

Capture Osama Bin Laden

Drive the last of the Taliban out of the region

Rebuild an economy that has been destroyed by decades of war

Train farmers to do other kinds of jobs