Afghanistan: October 27, 2003

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The most serious security problem is not the Taliban, but the drug gangs. The heroin trade is big money, and that's considered more worth fighting for than the Taliban religious and traditional lifestyle practices. But the Taliban and drug gangs have shown that they can work together against a common enemy; local and national government. 

 

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