This new curriculum, as reported by Reuters correspondent T. Zakaria in a May 16 story and by the newsletter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) dated June 24, 2002, absolutely and clearly establishes the priorities of the agency. Understanding this relationship helps people to rethink their paradigms when trying to understand the real role of secret intelligence operations in today’s world. As described recently by FTW friend Dr. Faiz Khan, M.D. – “A paradigm is what you think about something before you think about it.”
Since the U.S.-led conquest of Afghanistan was completed last November, a fresh opium crop has been planted that has currently put between 3,000 and 4,500 metric tons of opium back on the market after being harvested last month. That equates to an estimated $150 and $200 billion in liquid cash revenues that will enter the world’s banking system and financial markets, mostly in the U.S. In January of 2000 the Taliban destroyed some 96% of the country’s opium crop; an act of economic warfare that took an estimated $200 billion out of the world’s banking system.
The AFIO newsletter also cited a popular course as “Writing for the President.” The Reuters story, as cited in Pakistan’s “News International” on May 18, quoted the university’s president Frans Bax as saying, “We are deepening the training we are going to do for a whole new generation.”
Since the U.S.-led conquest of Afghanistan was completed last November, a fresh opium crop has been planted that has currently put between 3,000 and 4,500 metric tons of opium back on the market after being harvested last month. That equates to an estimated $150 and $200 billion in liquid cash revenues that will enter the world’s banking system and financial markets, mostly in the U.S. In January of 2000 the Taliban destroyed some 96% of the country’s opium crop; an act of economic warfare that took an estimated $200 billion out of the world’s banking system.
The AFIO newsletter also cited a popular course as “Writing for the President.” The Reuters story, as cited in Pakistan’s “News International” on May 18, quoted the university’s president Frans Bax as saying, “We are deepening the training we are going to do for a whole new generation.”