Afghan Rug War

The secret story of how america lost the drug war with the taliban.

Afghan rug war.

Since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in 1979 the country s war rugs have featured not only images of the instruments of war but. The war rug pashto. It is a vital source of finance for the cia and other us intelligence agencies. This may well be the main reason for why the afghan war continues despite the patent incongruities and presidential vows to end it.

In december 2001 a number of prominent afghans met in bonn germany under un auspices to develop a plan to. By november 2001 and with the start of the afghan war the collapse of the economy and the scarcity of other sources of revenue forced many of the country s farmers to resort to growing opium for export 1 300 km 2 or 500 sq mi in 2004 according to the un office on drugs and crime. Offers a selection of rugs broken down by style. The cultural story gold s rug tells is only the beginning.

The big advantage from drug business is that the finances are off the books and therefore not subject to congressional oversight. A high stakes plan to indict afghan drug lords and insurgency leaders on criminal conspiracy charges ran. The profits from the heroin it produces are used to fund. فرش جنگی farš jangi tradition of afghanistan has its origins in the decade of soviet occupation of afghanistan from 1979 and has continued through the subsequent military political and social conflicts.

Size 138 x 108 cm 4 6 x 3 7. Afghan rug makers began incorporating the apparatus of war into their designs almost immediately after the soviet union invaded their country. A booming heroin industry. Opium is woven deeply into the fabric of the conflict in afghanistan now the longest war in american history.