Believe it or not, after the Tlaiban was ushered into power after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and having the full approval of the United States, they acted in the same way and halted the poppy cultivation there. The CIA were completely surprised by this move because they funded the Taliban against the Soviets. For this reason and the failureto win American contracts for the construction of the Caspian Sea Basin pipeline to Lahore, Pakistan, the Osama bin Laden "hiding-in-an-Afghan-cave justified the American overthrow of the Taliban government.
Believe it or not, after the Tlaiban was ushered into power after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and having the full approval of the United States, they acted in the same way and halted the poppy cultivation there. The CIA were completely surprised by this move because they funded the Taliban against the Soviets. For this reason and the failureto win American contracts for the construction of the Caspian Sea Basin pipeline to Lahore, Pakistan, the Osama bin Laden "hiding-in-an-Afghan-cave justified the American overthrow of the Taliban government.