Afghanistan's Opium Trail - 43 minute documentary - trailer

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Over 90% of the world's opium now comes from Afghanistan. In this shocking new film, we ride the drugs caravan, from cultivation, to process, to market. On route, we lift the curtain on the hidden world of the drug barons; learn how to process heroin in the crudest of laboratories and encounter deadly gunfights on the Iranian border...

Crouching behind rocks in the mountain passes between Iran and Afghanistan, Iranian guards prepare an ambush. As opium smugglers come into view, the guards open fire. One trafficker falls to the ground immediately, killed by their first shot. But the others fight back until police reinforcements arrive, wielding large machine guns.

Shoot outs like this happen every day. Over 200 Iranian guards are killed a year patrolling the Afghan border. "Drugs production has increased tenfold in Afghanistan", laments Captain Miri. So much opium is flooding across the border, anti-drug units now calculate the value of their hauls in tonnes rather than kilos.


February 2008

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[TheBlackOpsProject]

wow,do you really need "JOURNEYMAN.TV" covering half of the screen??

[ThaGodWeCreate]

@fleurde100 exactly, tha US gov did it in tha 80s with cocaine in south america...fuckin sick i hate tha hypocracy of my countrys government

[Chidanandaji]

@hidepuller2008 and that objective was control of Middle Eastern oil routes and oil reserves, control of Afghanistan lithium, mineral and opium producing resources, and implanting US/British minions into Mid East govt leadership positions. Westerners foot the trillion dollar war costs, soldiers die, and the power-elite, who pull the strings, get the control of private banking and oil drilling contracts. If Russia was the objective, then why fight the CIA created Taliban?

[sheshines4all]

wow...great footage...

[robertpisarek]

34$ for a kilo of opium hahahah a dose is about 100-200mg smoked. so thats 5000 hits of good high morphine/codeine content. Should be worth £1000+/-. Id buy it off him for 800$-1000 yes please

[WoeptiWoop]

Fuck you men its not your Docu

so you dont got the right to sell or rent it You Gready Bitch !

[hidepuller2008]

In 1995 the former CIA Director of this Afghan operation, Mr. Charles Cogan, admitted sacrificing the drug war to fight the Cold War. "Our main mission was to do as much damage to the Soviets. We didn't really have the resources or the time to devote to an investigation of the drug trade, "I don't think that we need to apologize for this. Every situation has its fallout. There was fallout in terms of drugs, yes, but the main objective was accomplished.

[Sieist23Jahrealt]

So speaks the man who gets rich at the expense of desperate drug addicts the world over.

[tpvalley]

@unripevocal

and queen victoria dont forget!

That bitch has the sasoon family hold monopoly opium trading rights for all asia; the sasoons are related to rothschilds; who had a hand in motivating the invasion with their oil and gas line from caspien basin that taliban wanted too much money to allow, connect the dots!

Oh and we invaded during planting season!

Oh and the taliban wiped out most opim fields....and dog fighting it turns out; now were they THAT bad I wonder?

[CosmosPrivateer]

Air left out the opium problem solved

[lambofgod661]

@unripevocal then the groom of the stool will have a great big mess! thats what im worried about.