but clearly you are very door andaish. so didnt taliban control that very province prior to 2000? or didnt they need money prior to war of terror? and then again a regime that has been actively causing more civilians life loss than militant turns coy when it comes to opium fields? funny it can be asserted that taliban could ban opium to hinder northern alliance profiting but coalition cannot do the same to stop talibs? yea credibility is the strongest point of this theory.
No, they didn't need all that money because there were open funding lines all the way from the gulf to pakistan to taliban, courtesy of isi and jihadi movement. There were no restrictions on islamist "charities" like al rashid trust pre 9/11.