ISIS jihadis MASSING for huge INVASION of central Asia: Russia spies discover terror plan

Express (UK) ^ | Oct 29, 2015 | NICK GUTTERIDGE

[AdmSmith]

Huge numbers of Islamist fighters are massing on Afghanistan's northern border ready to march into neighbouring states, Russian intelligence officials have revealed.

Moscow's spy chief Alexander Bortnikov warned fighters from the Taliban, many of whom have pledged allegiance to ISIS, were heavily armed and prepared to pass through porous border controls.

The jihadi hate group could be trying to open up a new front to the north of its territories after being pegged back in Syria by Russian airstrikes.

The invasion would be a swipe at Vladimir Puitin as it would take them into the former Soviet states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, which are still beholden to Moscow.

They would also secure control of lucrative drug trafficking routes taking raw opium from Afghanistan to be sold as heroin on the streets of Russia and Europe.

[webstersII]

“Wipe out the crops and let them figure out what else to grow. Either the world is serious about the drug problem, or it isn’t.”

That’s about as simple as “regime change”. You can’t just wipe them out once and they are gone. The residents will just grow another round of the same stuff,since this has been a cash crop for a long time over there. It’s capitalism 101: they produce a good or service that people will pay money for.

As long as there is a Hugh demand the price to eradicate it will be huge, i.e., you have to kill all the growers. And that’s too high a price to pay.

[AFreeBird]

Cause they’re selling it to us so we can sell it and finance other stuff.

[PapaBear3625]

If America is truly fighting a "war on drugs," why is it that in the 13 years we've been in Afghanistan, no effort has been made to destroy the poppy crops that end up destroying US and European lives?

I would guess that brightly-colored poppy flowers are visible from the air.

All it would take is a UAV outfitted with a crop-dusting attachment, to spray herbicide on the poppy fields.

The message would be: you plant cabbages, we leave you alone. You plant poppies, you lose your crop, and your field will be un-plantable for a year until the herbicide decays.