[Dr Thrumpkinz]

A video I found labeled as "Taliban Ambushes Opium Smugglers". I find it entertaining. I tend to refrain from posting Middle Eastern videos, as I usually find their authenticity dubious as all get out. From Syria, and Libya before mostly though, so this looks pretty proper to me.
It's audio was fully drowned out by that absurd Jihadi Choir that they all seem to take their tops off for over there. But fret not, as I quickly overpowered and then laid waste to their blasphemous Vulture-Witch spell singing, and re-scored it with something more appropriate.

[retrocube]

What if the blue bags were a disguise and they were actually smuggling ass?

[wujuan]

donkeys

[Suicide_Note]

Job well done, Doc.

[Oswald2001]

Looked to me like the 'pious' Taliban hijacked another load of dope... and sex-mules.

[Dr Thrumpkinz]

Originally Posted by Dr Thrumpkinz ↗

I quickly overpowered and then laid waste to their blasphemous Vulture-Witch spell singing, and re-scored it with something more appropriate.

I just thought I should clarify one thing. I didn't mean that those singers are Vulture Witches. Not at all. You see, whenever I hear that obnoxious vocalization I'm overcome by a vision--it's as clear as anything can be, and the same every time...The singers are massed together around one of those nice old stainless steel microphones, like a barber shop quartet. Only, they are far from any grooming. They're up high in the Afghan craggilyness. They all have foolish long beards, and they are singing into a big crack in the stone. The type of hole that you'd expect to find a giant ball of hibernating snakes, or hive of land crabs. From this mountain cavity emerges what appears to be a Skeksis draped in an infinite Burka that drags heavy behind her. Picking up sharp little stones and dust like a glacier, or giant dreadlock saturated with tobacco dribble. She has symbols embroidered in bright silver thread down her back, and they must be deciphered like a stock ticker spitting out of the mountain. That is the Vulture Witch. And all the guttural racket is the Spell to bind her into their service. Who really knows for what perverse Afghani purpose she's actually summoned. Probably to dance for them, and twist dynamite wicks, or to solder all the dicey wiring in their improvised explosives.
I hate that singing very much.

[MrRight]

the CIA is gonna buy it back from the Taliban. lol send the Taliban a playlist to use for their videos..

[Susan]

I hope as they came out the bushes they shouted "hewwo"

[Cerebral222]

Originally Posted by retrocube ↗

What if the blue bags were a disguise and they were actually smuggling ass?

You just never know.

[kellyhound]

During the Taliban rule, Afghanistan saw a bumper opium crop of 4,500 metric tons in 1999.

In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the United Nations to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors.

The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time. The ban was effective only briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2002.

However, some people suggest that certain parties benefited from the price increase during the ban. Some[who?], even believe it was a form of market manipulation on the part of certain drug lords.

Dried opium, unlike most agricultural products, can easily be stored for long periods without refrigeration or other expensive equipment.

With huge stashes of opium stored in secret hideaways, the Taliban and other groups that were involved in the drug trade were in theory able to make huge personal profits during the price spikes after the 2000 ban and the chaos following 9/11.