Los Angeles Times Article RatingThe Taliban says it wants to ban drugs in Afghanistan. Here's why it can't
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56% Medium Right
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-26% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
48% : Its revenues from levying taxes on NATO supply trucks during the peak of the U.S. surge in 2011 is believed to have exceeded its earnings from drug taxes.45% : "Drugs obviously did significantly contribute to the Taliban's war chest -- along with taxation of licit trade, which was probably at least, if not more, important than drugs."
41% : The counternarcotics campaign was driven by the belief that the Taliban was filling its coffers with taxes levied along the opium supply chain.
36% : At its peak in 2017, annual opium production was valued at $1.4 billion, or 7.4% of Afghanistan's gross domestic product, according to the United Nations.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
