The USA and England....................and others..........trained the Afghan freedom fighters............a infamous Saudi Arabian man went there to help his Muslim brothers and sisters...............a man whose family were into oil.............a billionaire...........Osama Bin Ladin..........the CIA helped, funded, and armed the resistance..................why?  Iron ore and opium...........among other things...........



Afghanistan has been the world's greatest illicit opium producer, ahead of Burma (Myanmar), the "Golden Triangle", and Latin America since 1992, excluding the year 2001.^[1] Afghanistan is the main producer of opium in the "Golden Crescent". Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S. occupation started in 2001.[4] Based on UNODC data, opium poppy cultivation was more in each of the growing seasons in the periods between 2004 and 2007 than in any one year during Taliban rule.