Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda - Softcover

Peters, Gretchen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851687238 ISBN 13: 9781851687237

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Aims to reshape the way you think about the West's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn half a billion pounds every year off the opium trade. This work traces their illicit activities from vast poppy fields in southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders.

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Review:

"It is rare that a journalist writes about some aspect of American foreign policy, makes an impassioned plea for change and finds her advice adopted." -- Economist

"Meticulously researched." --The Sunday Times

"Excellent ... Gretchen Peters's disturbing book plainly states that unless the opium-smuggling industry is put out of business, the nation-building exercise in Afghanistan is destined for failure. We should heed her warnings." --Emran Qureshi, The Globe and Mail

"Required reading for anyone interested in public-policy issues concerning drugs, defense, and diplomacy . . . Buy it." --National Post

"Seeds of Terror offers layer after layer of fascinating information about the deadly consequences of decades of disastrous policy decisions. This is a well-written, well-documented, and exemplary work of journalism." --Lewis Perdue, Barron's

Book Description:

The astonishing exposé of how the Afghan poppy fields fund international terrorism

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1851687238
• ISBN 13: 9781851687237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320