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CNN Special Investigations Unit

Season 2007 · Episode 19

Narco State: The Poppy Jihad

0.01h 0mSeptember 8, 2007

Anderson Cooper reports on Afghanistan, where the Taliban is using profits from the poppy trade to fuel its resurgence. Included: efforts by NATO and U.S. forces to eradicate the drug trade; a visit to a Taliban-controlled area.

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Episode 1The War Within
Episode 2The Journalist and the Jihadi
Episode 3MLK: Words That Changed a Nation
Episode 4Ambush at the River of Secrets
Episode 5Fatal Journey
Episode 6Death Squads
Episode 7Grady's Anatomy
Episode 8What Is a Christian? God, Faith and Hard Science
Episode 9Chasing Life
Episode 10Massacre at Virginia Tech
Episode 11We Were Warned: Edge of Disaster
Episode 12Month of Mayhem
Episode 13Danger: Poisoned Food
Episode 14Battlefield Breakdown
Episode 15Criminally Insane
Episode 16Road to Ruin: Are We Safe?
Episode 17Growing Up Diana
Episode 18Children of the Storm
Episode 19Narco State: The Poppy Jihad
Episode 20Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil
Episode 21Judgment in Jena
Episode 22Fed Up: America's Killer Diet
Episode 23Ahmadinejad: Soldier of God
Episode 24The Minds of the D.C. Snipers
Episode 25The Noose: An American Nightmare
Episode 26Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling
Episode 27Bloodspilled
Episode 28Amanpour Reports: Czar Putin
Episode 29Iran: Fact or Fiction
Episode 30Pakistan: Terror Central