Comments on: BOOK REVIEW: Seeds of Terror — How How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda (By Gretchen Peters) http://pakistanpolicy.com/2009/05/26/book-review-seeds-of-terror-how-how-heroin-is-bankrolling-the-taliban-and-al-qaeda-by-gretchen-peters/ Analysis of Pakistan's domestic and foreign affairs Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:06:41 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ali Eteraz - American Saracen - The Turbaned Drug Cartel - True/Slant http://pakistanpolicy.com/2009/05/26/book-review-seeds-of-terror-how-how-heroin-is-bankrolling-the-taliban-and-al-qaeda-by-gretchen-peters/comment-page-1/#comment-21823 Ali Eteraz - American Saracen - The Turbaned Drug Cartel - True/Slant Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:24:40 +0000 http://pakistanpolicy.com/?p=1367#comment-21823 [...] Rafiq at the excellent Pakistan Policy blog, gave it a positive review, identifying that there are two components of the trade, Afghan & Pakistani. With [...] [...] Rafiq at the excellent Pakistan Policy blog, gave it a positive review, identifying that there are two components of the trade, Afghan & Pakistani. With [...]

]]> By: republicancanuck http://pakistanpolicy.com/2009/05/26/book-review-seeds-of-terror-how-how-heroin-is-bankrolling-the-taliban-and-al-qaeda-by-gretchen-peters/comment-page-1/#comment-21626 republicancanuck Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:04:17 +0000 http://pakistanpolicy.com/?p=1367#comment-21626 After reading your review of the book, recounting the way the poppy trade has corrupted parts of the Pakistani government, I thought of a story I'd run across almost a month ago, which I thing you should check out: http://muslimmediadigest.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/afghan-farmers-replacing-heroin-with-saffron/ It's about how heroin prices have been falling as of late, and that many Afghan farmers have begun replacing their poppy plants with saffron flowers. I haven't read Seeds of Terror, but I wonder whether this might be a viable solution to the problems heroin poses to the South Asian region. I'll be sure to keep up with your blog from now on (now that I've found it), and add it to my own blog roll. Keep up the good work! After reading your review of the book, recounting the way the poppy trade has corrupted parts of the Pakistani government, I thought of a story I’d run across almost a month ago, which I thing you should check out:

http://muslimmediadigest.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/afghan-farmers-replacing-heroin-with-saffron/

It’s about how heroin prices have been falling as of late, and that many Afghan farmers have begun replacing their poppy plants with saffron flowers. I haven’t read Seeds of Terror, but I wonder whether this might be a viable solution to the problems heroin poses to the South Asian region.

I’ll be sure to keep up with your blog from now on (now that I’ve found it), and add it to my own blog roll. Keep up the good work!

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