“It brought us almost to the breaking point, put our elections into a time of crisis, and then our economy almost collapsed,” Haidari said of the drug money funding the Taliban.
effort to indict Taliban narcotics kingpins was stopped dead in its tracks 16 months after it began. Ashraf Haidari, also expressed anger at the Obama administration when told about how the U.S. “But it lies dormant, buried in an obscure file room, all but forgotten.”Ī senior Afghan security official, M.
“This was the most effective and sustainable tool we had for disrupting and dismantling Afghan drug trafficking organizations and separating them from the Taliban,” said Michael Marsac, the main architect of the plan as the DEA’s regional director for South West Asia at the time.
