Afghanistan’s Deposed Heroin Kingpin

America’s Blind Eye (2002): This archive report exposes Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai, head honcho of Afghanistan’s heroin trade. For similar stories see our Drug Wars playlist: Behind The Taliban Mask: The Other Side Of Afghanistan’s Front-line Inside Myanmar’s Soaring Heroin Trade Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: For downloads and more information visit: Following the arrest of Afghan heroin baron, Haji Bashir Noorzai, we bring back the award-winning report which first exposed him. It contains excellent undercover footage of the Kandahar opium markets. On the streets of Sangin, it is business as usual for the opium wholesalers and brokers. “We buy it from the farmers here and then we take it to the Iranian border,“ comments one local dealer. At $800 a kilo, opium is too lucrative to ignore and the traders are relieved the Americans show no intention of closing down their operations. “You take away opium and you suck the oxygen out of this economy,“ says Michael Ware of Time magazine. Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: ABC Australia - Ref. 1276 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world’s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world’s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you’ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.