While the U.S. likes to claim the Taliban is funded by heroin money the fact is 4% to Taliban, 75% captured by government officials, the police, local and regional power brokers and traffickers – in short, many of the groups now supported (or tolerated) by the United States and NATO. Who are the real drug dealing profiteers?
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus of the Institute for Policy Studies. Here’s an article about their study.