Anti-drug fight part of terror war: US
WASHINGTON: The fight against illegal drug trafficking is part of US efforts to defeat terrorism, the State Department said. “The US campaign against global terrorism in 2002 highlighted the importance of our international drug control programs,” the department said in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy report released Saturday. “Whether through the heroin that financed Taliban or the cocaine that sustains Colombia, the drugs generate the money for violence,” it stressed. The report restated a list of 23 countries released in January which Washington considers producers or major transit points: Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Thailand, Venezuela and Vietnam. —AFP