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Seeds of Terror

How Drugs, Thugs and Crime are Reshaping the Afghan War

Gretchen Peters

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English
One World
25 August 2011
Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about the West’s enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn billions of pounds every year off the opium trade. With the breakneck pace of a thriller, author Gretchen Peters traces their illicit activities from the vast poppy fields of southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai.

Based on hundreds of interviews with Taliban fighters, smugglers, and law enforcement and intelligence agents, Peters makes the case that we must cut terrorists off from their drug earnings if we ever hope to beat them.
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Imprint:   One World
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 26mm
ISBN:   9781851687510
ISBN 10:   1851687513
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gretchen Peters has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for the Associated Press and later for ABC News in the US. A Harvard graduate, Peters was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and won the SAJA Journalism Award for a Nightline segment on Pervez Musharraf.

Reviews for Seeds of Terror: How Drugs, Thugs and Crime are Reshaping the Afghan War

It is rare that a journalist writes about some aspect of American foreign policy, makes an impassioned plea for change and finds her advice adopted. The Economist It is rare that a journalist writes about some aspect of American foreign policy, makes an impassioned plea for change and finds her advice adopted. The Economist Sure to be hotly discussed Booklist An important examination of 'the nexus of [drug] smugglers and extremists' in the global war against terrorists. Peters builds a solid case [and] has exhaustively framed one of the thorniest problems facing policy makers in this long war. Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched. The Sunday Times Excellent ... Gretchen Peters's disturbing book plainly states that unless the opium-smuggling industry is put out of business, the nation-building exercise in Afghanistan is destined for failure. We should heed her warnings. Emran Qureshi The Globe and Mail Seeds of Terror offers layer after layer of fascinating information about the deadly consequences of decades of disastrous policy decisions. This is a well-written, well-documented, and exemplary work of journalism. Lewis Perdue Barron's


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