UK News 04-10-2001 who: Customs officers what: Say every seizure of heroin in Britain has originated from Afghanistan when: In the last two years snippet: In every case, chemical profiling of heroin shipments has found that it came from poppy fields controlled by the Taliban or the Northern Alliance, reports The Guardian. In a separate report, the paper says "London has become one of the major money laundering capitals of the world" with more than $1.3bn in cash recently "siphoned through London banks, some of them household names". And in The Times, Catherine Philp reports that the Taliban are using a cocktail of marijuana and heroin to press-gang followers into fighting the Northern Alliance. [... more]

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