[Karl Spooner]

There were signs that heroin from Myanmar is reaching markets in Europe previously supplied by Afghanistan,

Yup, the US knew how to get opium production up and how to protect it.

Afghanistan’s Opium Business Boomed Under US Occupation

[piasa]

It was booming before we got there too—- the Taliban only destroyed fields of competitors, they were in on the smuggling as was Zarqawi, a pal of Iraqi intelligence.