Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
From: Jay Garfinkel
Length: 10:01
With her new book Seeds of Terror Gretchen Peters refocuses the way to think about America's enemies, revealing them more as Mafiosi than mujahidin who earn as much as a half a billion dollars every year off the opium trade and other criminal activity. Seeds of Terror traces their illicit activities from vast poppy fields in southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai.
Seeds of Terror is based on hundreds of interviews with Taliban fighters, smugglers, and law enforcement and intelligence agents. Their information is matched by classified documents shown to the author by frustrated U.S. officials - who fear the next 9/11 will be far deadlier than the first - and paid for with heroin profits.
Gretchen Peters has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for The Associated Press and later as a reporter for ABC News. She has worked with leading media outlets including The National Geographic Society, The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, and she has been a commentator on NPR and CNN.
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With her new book Seeds of Terror Gretchen Peters refocuses the way to think about America's enemies, revealing them more as Mafiosi than mujahidin who earn as much as a half a billion dollars every year off the opium trade and other criminal activity. Seeds of Terror traces their illicit activities from vast poppy fields in southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai.
Seeds of Terror is based on hundreds of interviews with Taliban fighters, smugglers, and law enforcement and intelligence agents. Their information is matched by classified documents shown to the author by frustrated U.S. officials - who fear the next 9/11 will be far deadlier than the first - and paid for with heroin profits.
Gretchen Peters has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for The Associated Press and later as a reporter for ABC News. She has worked with leading media outlets including The National Geographic Society, The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, and she has been a commentator on NPR and CNN.
Broadcast History
Sirius XM and British SKY Radio broadcast 11/28/09
