al-Qaida branches into alchemy
June 15th, 2008
A lot of press has been made recently about the creative destruction (read: bombing) of a 237-ton stash of finest Afghan cannabis by the Royal Air Force. But it was the Daily Mail that revealed those sneaky terrorists had an ingenious plan to bump up the crop’s street value:
Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
What???
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7 Comments Add your own
1. Brandon | June 15th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Unfortunately, forces were unable to find the bunker where the Taliban was turning lead into gold.
2. Colin | June 16th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Wow, three expensive 1000lb bombs plus the money for a fuel intensive Harrier run. Expensive! But then again how else would you light a football field sized joint?
3. Doctor Spurt | June 16th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Ah, so they’re hoping (those “officials”) that the war on terror can bask in some reflected glory from the war on drugs…
4. reef | June 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Not much sign of 1000 lb bomb craters in any of the photographs. Don’t mean to suggest that the story is complete nonsense, but perhaps the SBS just burnt it… the Harrier does give the story an added cool factor though I guess.
5. Dafydd | June 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Hmmm… the Taliban have cracked the secret of alchemy and they can’t think of anything better to create than HEROIN? Or have we just not found the cannabis-to-enriched uranium facility yet?
6. Frank the SciencePunk | June 20th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
@ 5. Dafydd:
Value of uranium = £0.04 per gram
Value of heroin = £43 per gram
In fact, at those prices, even gold is worth less than smack.
Although, while we’re in alchemy-land, can the Taliban please make me some red mercury?
7. Dafydd | June 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@Frank:
OK, smack’s more valuable, but can you blow up cities with it? :-P
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