KABUL says.
In an exclusive session with Afghan journalists, Gen. John Nicholson called the illicit drug commerce the main revenue source for the insurgent movement.
Speaking on the sidelines of NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, he accused the Taliban of kidnapping for ransom and illegal digging of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth.
“Our first priority was to eradicate Taliban’s income from producing and smuggling narcotics. We have already inflicted a loss on them of $40 million,” the general explained.
Nicholson said . . .
