The Taliban Is Gone, But Local Interests Keep the Afghan Drug Trade Alive

Afghanistan's vaunted heroin trade is back -- and many of its proceeds are going to likely terror supporters as well as members of the incumbent government, experts told ABCNEWS.

This month, the United Nations' Office of Drug Control Policy said in a report that preliminary surveys had confirmed "a major resurgence" of opium poppy cultivation in the Central Asian country.

"It could be considerably high and considerably serious," said UNODCP spokesman Kemal Kurspahic. "We can assume that Afghanistan will resume its No. 1 spot at the production table."

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