This is the tip of a huge iceberg. No one is going to believe who is behind this. But when this finally surfaces, there will be hell to pay. I was in a family for more than 26 years who directly involved with laundering the money straight into property.
Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL

Marty Didier, Northbroook, IL, USA

LMAO

Yes lets give Monsanto more power and money to create frankenfoods!

Why cant we just bomb or torch all the fields? IIs a field of flowers that hard to find?

Perhaps high lvl people in the UK and US are making money off this as well? Why assume the business man is arabic?

jj, PA, USA

Why don't the British destroy the poppy crop and pay the farmers?

Godfrey, Jeruslaem, Israel

Remind me, what were the reasons to invade and occupy Afghanistan? Something about capturing Osama bin Laden, wasn't it? After some five years seems that US/UK/NATO forces are no nearer achieving their stated goal. They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek ObL everywhere. Is he in heaven, i

Andrew Milner, Karuizawa, Japan

Any farmer growing a poppy crop has little choice, grow them, collect the resin or face the business end of an AK-47, any farmer not keeping with that program would not last long entertaining growing another type of crop, it is he opium traders, the "business man" and the Taleban that dictate and demand the poppy growing in Afghanistan, the farmers have only one other option, death, we are talking SLAVES here, not free choice.

Lou, Parsonsfield, ME, USA

Doesn't everyone that is commenting and reading this really understand the game? Do you not see that everything goes the way they plan or should I say play the game? Their not looking for some type of solution, except maybe, that they create the problem, get a reaction, and a non-solution-solution.

Shaun, Realville, Sovereign

Afghani opium production back up

Iraq in chaos, oil fields secure

Billions laundered to Dubai

Mission Accomplished.......

Bubba Redneck, Redneckville, USA

If we can fire missiles from drones at terrorist leaders, why can't we take out this "Businessman"? For that matter, after the resin has been harvested and is waiting to picked up, we could drop a few precision bombs or fire a few missiles. We couls put a serious dent in the supply.

Danny, Belleville, IL, USA

When did the Opium Wars stop? Perhaps a little history lesson is in order to understand some of today's drug trade.

Doesn't it seem odd that we can't spray the fields? I read that the government there wouldn't allow it, so who's in charge?

How much ends up in the USA? Too much

Maggie, KC,

Maggie, kansas city, usa

"No one knows what nationality he is – Afghan, Pakistani or Iranian"...or how about American, British?
Just a thought?
bet you don't print this...lol

Ken, Farnborough, United Kingdom

Heroin, I have heard is a horrible evil,
Perhaps small amounts of the poppies could be used to make
controlled pharmaceuticals used in sever pain management ,But another alternative crop particularly a food crop should replace the great majority of the current crop if it can not be controlled

sandy, afton, usa

I would like a rational argument from this government as to why they don't buy the opium crop, use what we need and destroy the rest. Maybe there is a good reason not to buy the crop, but no one has said why as far as I know.

Neil Murphy, cromer,

A opium boom in the middle of a war zone? When will people realize it is our political leadership responsible for the cultivation,smuggling and sale of this product?

A. Cohen, edmonton,

The Taleban told the outside world they had eradicated poppy fields. I always believe everything the Taleban say .. guys who live in the 7th century.

Ken, London, UK

If we arranged for Monsanto to create a unique, sterile, food crop (wheat, for example) with a unique genotype, we could pay Afghan farmers the going rate for opium to grow this instead. Money and food is passed to the Afghan economy and the drug barons are hit where it hurts money - their wallets.

Robbie Bow, Cambridge, UK

The coalition should just get on and buy the opium and starve the Taliban of these vital funds and keep this junk off our streets. It would be a far cheaper option than the currant situation which cost the UK and US billions every year.

D Case, Newquay,

As it has been pointed out, the Taleban did almost eradicate poppy farming -- opium production. What little existed was a cash crop for the benefit of the Taleban or outside their control ... the profits of which went to fight the Taleban. Seems familiar?

Brett, Boston , USA

No mention in the article that prior to the overthrow of the previous regime in 2001 that poppy cultivation was outlawed and at the lowest level ever - almost zero.

Ollie, Manchester, UK