U.S. Wants NATO to Target Afghan Heroin Trade

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- "I don't think anyone in the alliance is interested in eradicating crops or doing things that involve individual farmers, but if we have the opportunity to go after drug lords and drug laboratories and try and interrupt this flow of cash to the Taliban, that seems to me like a legitimate security endeavor," Mr. Gates told reporters. "And that will be the position that I take to them."
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