Seeds of Terror : How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime are Reshaping the Afghan War

Description

"Seeds of Terror" will reshape the way you think about the West's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn billions of pounds every year off the opium trade. With the breakneck pace of a thriller, author Gretchen Peters traces their illicit activities from the vast poppy fields of southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai. Based on hundreds of interviews with Taliban fighters, smugglers, and law enforcement and intelligence agents, Peters makes the case that we must cut terrorists off from their drug earnings if we ever hope to beat them.

Author description

Gretchen Peters has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for the Associated Press and later for ABC News in the US. A Harvard graduate, Peters was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and won the SAJA Journalism Award for a Nightline segment on Pervez Musharraf.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9781851687510
• Publisher : Oneworld Publications
• Imprint : Oneworld Publications
• Publication date : September 2011
• Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Availability date : September 2011
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 320
• Dewey classification : 320.557
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Gretchen Peters