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As reported widely in the press, Secretary of State Colin Powell, gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the Taliban regime. Source: The
Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001 (See OpiumWarAfghanistan)