Drug kingpins use to go by the names; Manuel Noriega, Ismael Zambada García, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Frank Lucas and Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria but today they go by the names; George HW Bush, Barack Hussein Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton.

In Afghanistan, the U.S and NATO have put the blame on the Taliban for poppy cultivation to finance their resistance to allied forces. Ironically, it was only during the Taliban ruling era that the World saw a drastic decline in opium citivation in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban had banned opium cultivation nationwide, probably for the first time in Afghan history. How and when did this business of drug production and trafficking get started in region? The answer is linked to the U.S. and the largest state sponsored terrorist organization in the World - the CIA. The CIA has been using drug money for decades to generate money to support its operations all over the world. It did not start in Afghanistan it was brought there after experimenting somewhere else.

Without active support of the Pentagon and the CIA it is not possible to export the cocaine drug prepared with more than 8000 metric tons of opium. U.S. relations with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban ruling government have given a free license to drug producers and traffickers. The CIA and the Pentagon have both been linked to all of these Afghan drug warlords in order to get a major supply of the drugs and export the drugs in U.S. Army planes. It has been reported that the CIA and the Pentagon have used U.S. Army planes leaving Afghanistan carrying coffins which were filled with drugs instead of bodies.

To make sure there was an undisturbed drug trade the U.S. appointed all Northern Alliance drug lords key posts in Afghanistan and the most prominent appointment was none other than President Hamid Karzai. Karzai’s brother, head of Kandahar’s provincial council is a notorious drug trafficker facilitating the transportation of heroin from Kandahar eastward through Helmand and out across the Iranian border. There is no reason to believe that the CIA is not aware of this. It is all one big enterprise where Hamid Karzai is a partner with his drug trafficking brother.

The Bush administration pushed the level of Opium cultivation to new level in Afghanistan just before the Wall Street orchestrated U.S. financial crisis. Many top Bush administration’s officials were worried about growing influence of countries in the Golden Triangle (Loas, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma) in Russian and Chinese drug markets. Like Oil in Iraq Opium was just another opportunity for the Bush administration to make some quick bucks.

Blame for using drugs to fight the NATO and U.S. forces is always put on the Taliban. But looking at the areas of Taliban’s active zones one can easily understand where all this poppy cultivation is actually taking place. The Taliban put a nationwide ban on poppy when they were in charge of the majority of Afghan territories and Kabul, the capital. Afghanistan was suffering the worse economic crisis at that time but the Taliban ruling government never went to build their economy with heroin trade. Now it is just ridiculous to blame the Taliban for having vast fields of poppy and having enough peace and time to grow and process it into heroin and then trade it in Pakistan and Iran to distribute it to destinations in Eastern Europe. The Taliban are not to blame, the U.S. is to blame for the U.S. facilitated and has protected the Afghanistan illicit drug trade since October 2001 as a major financial source for CIA operations.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) needs massive amounts of money to carry on its clandestine operations all over the world. The U.S. government calls on the CIA to conduct coups, assassinations, secret rendition flights, regime change, and other illegal operations against foreign and domestic targets. These kinds of operations need a lot of financial input. Usually the CIA arranges revenue from its own means for these kind of illegal operations where expenses can’t be predicted by any measure. Funds from the U.S. White House always needs a complete audit and detailed reports about usage of these funds. There are numerous occasions when the CIA never shared details of operations with its own analytical wing nor with any other public office in Washington. It is drug money that compensates these expenses.

CIA operations are not the only single expenditure fulfilled by Afghanistan Opium drug money there are also other deficiencies which are compensated with this money like financial institutes and banks in current financial crisis. UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa based in Vienna revealed that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiraled out of control last year.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had found evidence that “inter bank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities,” Costa was quoted as saying. There were “signs that some banks were rescued in that way.”

It is not only CIA anymore in trade for using it as gold mine to finance its illegal operations all over the world but U.S. economy also need some liquidity in its banks, it doesn’t matter if it is coming by drug trade.

The global proceeds of the Afghan drug trade is in excess of 150 billion dollars a year. There is mounting evidence that this illicit trade is protected by the US military.

Historically, starting in the early 1980s, the Afghan drug trade was used to finance CIA covert support of the Islamic brigades. The 2003 war on Afghanistan was launched following the Taliban government’s 2000-2001 drug eradication program which led to a collapse in opium production in excess of 90 percent.

The following report, which accuses the United States of using military transport planes to ship narcotics out of Afghanistan confirms what is already known and documented regarding the Golden Crescent Drug Trade and its insidious relationship to US intelligence.

Afghanistan drug trade revived under the U.S.

When Russia backed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban ruling party, the last thing it expected to happen was that drug trafficking from Afghanistan would assume gargantuan proportions under the U.S. military. Since October 2001, poppy fields, once banned by the Taliban, have mushroomed again. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan produced 8,200 tonnes of opium last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world’s heroin supply.

The U.S. led North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] forces in the country have not only failed to eliminate the alleged terrorist threat, but also presided over a spectacular rise in opium production. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Afghanistan was on the brink of becoming a “narco state”.

Narco business has emerged as virtually the only economy of Afghanistan and is valued at some $10 billion a year. Opium trade is estimated by the U.N. to be equivalent to 53 per cent of the country’s official economy and is helping to finance the CIA black ops (al Qaeda is the CIA created militant branch for secret covert operations against anyone who opposes the US agenda and unlawful actions) to further US determination to implement a New World Order. The US War “of” Terror is being financed by the Opium ops.

“Unfortunately, they (NATO) are doing nothing to reduce the narcotic threat from Afghanistan even a tiny bit,” Putin angrily remarked three years ago. He accused the coalition forces of “sitting back and watching caravans haul drugs across Afghanistan to the former Soviet Union and Europe.” As time went by, Russian suspicions regarding the U.S. role in the rise of a narco state in Afghanistan grew deeper, especially after reports from Iraq said that the cultivation of opium poppies was spreading rapidly there too.

“The Americans are working hard to keep narco business flourishing in both countries,” says Mikhail Khazin, president of the consultancy firm Niakon. “They consistently destroy the local infrastructure, pushing the local population to look for illegal means of subsistence. And the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) provides protection to drug trafficking.”

U.S. freelance writer Dave Gibson recalled in an article published in American Chronicle in December 2008 what a U.S. foreign intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told NewsMax.com in March 2002 of the CIA’s record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: “The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favourite business.”

Now Russia has joined the fray accusing the U.S. military of involvement in the heroin trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. The Vesti channel’s report from Afghanistan said that drugs from Afghanistan were hauled by American transport aircraft to the U.S. airbases Ganci in Kyrgyzstan and Incirlik in Turkey.

The Ganci Air Force base at the Manas international airport in Kyrgyzstan was set up in late 2001 as a staging post for military operations inside Afghanistan. The Kyrgyz government threatened to close the base after neighbouring Uzbekistan shut down a similar U.S. airbase on its territory in 2005, but relented after Washington agreed to make a one-off payment of $150 million in the form of an assistance package and to pay $15 million a year for the use of the base.

One of the best-informed Russian journalists on Central Asia, Arkady Dubnov, recently quoted anonymous Afghan sources as saying that “85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and southeastern provinces are shipped abroad by U.S. military aircraft.”

A well-informed source in Afghanistan’s security services told the Russian journalist that the American military acquired drugs through local Afghan officials who dealt with field commanders in charge of drug production.

Writing in the Vremya Novostei daily, Dubnov claimed that the pro-Western administration of President Hamid Karzai, including his two brothers, Kajum Karzai and Akhmed Vali Karzai, are head-to-heels involved in the narcotics trade.

The article quoted a leading U.S. expert on Afghanistan, Barnett Rubin, as telling an anti-narcotics conference in Kabul last October that “drug dealers had infiltrated Afghani state structures to the extent where they could easily paralyse the work of the government if decision to arrest one of them was ever made.”

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke said in January 2009 that “government officials, including some with close ties to the presidency, are protecting the drug trade and profiting from it.”

In an article carried by Washington Post, the diplomat described the $1-billion-a-year U.S. counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan as “the single most ineffective programme in the history of American foreign policy.”

Charges of U.S. complicity in drug trafficking are based on hard evidence.

Nikolai Bordyuzha, CSTO Secretary-General, quoted a Pentagon general as telling him: “We are not fighting narcotics because this is not our task in Afghanistan.”

Instead of joining hands with the SCO and the CSTO in combating the narcotics threat, the CSTO chief said, the U.S. was working to set up rival security structures in the region. Washington is working to “drive a geopolitical wedge between Central Asian countries and Russia and to reorient the region towards the U.S.”, Bordyuzha said in 2008.

With the U.S. and NATO rebuffing their cooperation offers, Russia, China and the Central Asian states have to rely on their own forces in combating the narcotics threat from Afghanistan. The CSTO has been running a wide-ranging aid and military assistance programme for Afghanistan, which includes training Afghan anti-narcotic police.

Last year, the SCO joined in signing a cooperation protocol with the CSTO, which is aimed, above all, at curbing drug trafficking. At its summit in Bishkek, the Kyrgyzstan capital, in August 2008, the SCO decided to set up jointly with the CSTO an “anti-narcotics belt” around Afghanistan.

Foreign intelligence agencies are well aware of the fact that Afghanistan is part of a Bush-Clinton drug cartel. George HW and George W Bush and Bill and Hillary Clinton have revived the opium trade and the proceeds have gone to illegal CIA operations and to finance mercenary outfits like Black Water. The Bush-Clinton drug cartel uses money from trafficking opium from Afghanistan to finance their own private army. “If George HW Bush is prosecuted, and goes to jail for the crimes he committed when he was the Drug Kingpin of the 1980s, this will be the single most important historical event in decades. It will define a realm of possible action that many people right now feel is impossible, or unfathomable - that it would ever happen. It can happen, it must happen. This is the responsibility of the American people.” - Jeffrey Steinberg

Jeffrey Steinberg - The Evidence Against Bush

“I can assure you that the evidence against George Herbert Walker Bush and the entire list of complicit figures, all the way down to William Weld, is more solid than the evidence that was presented in the trial against Ricky Ross, is more solid than the evidence that’s presented in 99 out of 110 cases that go to trial by the federal government in this country today. There is no question that George Bush was in charge of an operation that helped flood the streets of the United States with cocaine and heroin during the 1980s.”

“These people are guilty. They’ve been caught. We’ve assembled enough evidence to send them to jail for the rest of their lives. We’re not proposing to open up the prisons and let all of the low-level traffickers out on the street. We’re proposing that there should be a principle of equity here, that the people at the top of the drug pyramid, the actual kingpins; not the Ricky Rosses who typically get indicted as kingpins but have probably, in Ross’s case, never left the streets of South Central while they were committing the crimes that they were accused of.”

“We want the real kingpins to go down. And, think about the political implications, for this country and the world, if George Bush goes to jail, is prosecuted, and does real hard time for the crimes that he committed when he was the Drug Kingpin of the 1980s. This will be the singlemost important historic event in decades. It will define a realm of possible action that many people right now feel is impossible, or unfathomable - that it would ever happen. It can happen, it must happen. This is the responsibility of the American people. If we accomplish this, if we bring down that list of kingpins that we’ve identified in our indictment, if they go to trial and go to jail, it will be a far more entertaining television trial than the O.J. Simpson case - and one that would be important for every American citizen to follow very closely. “