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Afghanistan: How opium helped the Taliban takeover
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August 25, 2021
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3:43Now PlayingAfghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world.
But there is one sure-fire way to make money there - the drug trade.
The Taliban is heavily involved in the opium and heroin trade - with money funding their recent takeover of power in Afghanistan.
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