Afghanistan Opium and ‘Black Ops’

The stated reason for invading Afghanistan in 2001 was to capture Osama bin Laden, who allegedly led al Qaeda—the terrorist group that supposedly carried out the September 11 attacks—from a cave in Afghanistan. But after a long, drawn-out war. former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta said in June 2010 that there were fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda left in Afghanistan. Then, on May 2, 2011, we were told that SEAL Team Six finally found and killed bin Laden in Pakistan and his body was dumped into the sea a couple of days later. At this point “our” stated mission was over. Yet three and a half years later, U.S. soldiers are still killing and getting killed in Afghanistan.
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