{"id":1531,"date":"2009-07-17T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:52:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:52:32","slug":"afghanistan%e2%80%99s-poppy-cultivation-filling-the-coffers-of-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/afghanistan%e2%80%99s-poppy-cultivation-filling-the-coffers-of-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s Poppy Cultivation Filling the Coffers of Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans opium poppy cultivation has soared, and this year\u2019s harvest could be twice as large as last year\u2019s near-record crop unless eradication efforts are immediately stepped up. According to Robert Charles, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the heroin business is \u201calmost definitely\u201d filling the coffers of the Taliban and another Afghan group linked to Osama bin Laden and \u201cpossibly\u201d enriching al-Qaeda fighters as well.<br \/>\nSOURCE:Baltimore Sun, April 2, 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans opium poppy cultivation has soared, and this year\u2019s harvest could be twice as large as last year\u2019s near-record crop unless eradication efforts are immediately stepped up. According to Robert Charles, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the heroin business is \u201calmost definitely\u201d filling the coffers of the Taliban and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}