Author Claims Taliban Fights with Poppy Funds
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
Taliban insurgents have carried out nearly daily bombing attacks in Pakistan this week. They claim more territory in Afghanistan. Now a journalist and author who spent five years in research, sometimes on the border between the two countries, says the Taliban is better funded now than at any time since 2001. And in her book, "Seeds of Terror," Gretchen Peters says she surveyed and interviewed hundreds of people who work in or alongside the drug trade in the border areas, as well as government officials and aid workers. VOA's Ravi Khanna has the story.
