Experts say the driving force behind the opium trade - those with the men, muscle, and motive to keep it going - are Afghanistan's warlords, both within the outlawed Taliban movement and within the ranks of pro-US military commanders who work in the hunt for Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants.

So says The Christian Science Monitor.

Lovely -- sort of like the Crips and Bloods, I guess.

(Another one spotted by the Rational Enquirer.)