Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda

Most Americans think of the Taliban and al-Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Why is it that eight years after we invaded Afghanistan, the CIA says that these groups are better armed and better funded than ever?



Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about America's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn...