NATO to target drug production in Afghanistan supporting insurgents.

[ehtasab]

@underthedome

So those involved in drug smuggling and funding Taliban members it would behoove you to tighten up your money laundering techniques to avoid being attacked.

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BUDAPEST: Signaling a major shift in strategy for the trans-Atlantic alliance, NATO defense ministers agreed Friday to allow direct attacks on Afghanistan’s drug networks.

The accord means that troops will be able to attack drug operations provided they obtain authorization from their own governments. NATO officials stressed that only drug producers aiding the insurgency would be targeted. The alliance actions will not be open-ended, lasting only until the Afghan security forces are able to take on the task themselves.

“NATO can act in concert with the Afghans against facilities and facilitators supporting the insurgency, subject to the authorization of respective nations,” an alliance spokesman, James Appathurai, said after lengthy discussions Thursday and Friday among the ministers in the Hungarian capital.

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has repeatedly asked NATO to take on more responsibility for dealing with the drug lords. It is unclear, however, if the alliance will need a new UN Security Council resolution. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, operates under a UN mandate.

Read more: NATO allows strikes on Afghan drug sites - International Herald Tribune

Can somebody explain why other drug producers are not being attacked? Is it because they are aiding Coalition of The Willing? :faizy:

Seriously, if they are only going to target some and leave some its not going to help. It will only result in phenomena observed when rewards were announced for capturing AlQ or their “aides” and in fact many innocents were turned in to settle some scores.

Stopping drug producing is not going to help as much as securing borders.