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＞Taliban government officials regularly charged a legal 10% tax on narcotics
＞shipments and sales and unofficially pocketed a few more percentage points
＞in bribes. Sometimes, the bribe was paid in drugs.
＞By the first half of last year, the glut of poppy fields had driven down the
＞prices of Afghan heroin to its lowest level in years, $2,500 a kilo sold wholesale
＞on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
＞But in July of 2000, supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued
＞a decree banning poppy cultivation - but not any other link in the narcotics
＞chain - as violating Islam's moral precepts.
＞"The obvious item here is that the Taliban didn't mind trafficking and continued
＞to do so, despite what appeared to be a generous decision," said the Western
＞counter-narcotics expert.
＞Under the threat of the Taliban's terrifying brand of justice, where thieves' hands
＞are cut off and adulteresses are stoned to death, most farmers quickly burned
＞their poppy fields or let them go fallow.
＞According to a UN Drug Control Program survey this spring, poppy production
＞had dropped from 82,000 hectares just the year before, to 7,000 hectares.
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と、ゆーわけで、タリバンは芥子の栽培面積を一挙に95％削減したのだった。