There was virtually no opium production in Afghanistan in 2001 when
America took on the Taliban seeking what Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
described as literally “dozens” of advanced underground bases that
housed an army of up to 30,000 al Qaeda fighters. These bases with
supplied graphics, reminiscent of Netanyahu’s Iran bomb graphic, were
shown on TV talk shows. America is still seeking these bases, none have
yet to be found. Later it was learned that the Taliban had, in
actuality, “hosted” up to twelve Saudi members of al Qaeda who had asked
for religious asylum and that no Taliban force had ever existed in
Afghanistan nor had anyone involved in the planning and execution of
attacks on the United States been tied to Afghanistan or the Taliban.
