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To: Road Walker who wrote (143620)	9/17/2001 7:36:44 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 186894

I wouldn't hazard a guess on Bin Laden personally, but narcotics out of Afghanistan is more a commonplace than a conjecture. An odd passing note from yesterday's paper, in the travel section in a Kazakstan inadvertent adventure article. Our worries were different. Maksim expertly dodged potholes deep enough to swallow the car and big rigs barreling down from Russia toward southern Kazakhstan and the markets beyond in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Northbound we coped with trucks loaded with watermelons and other produce from the Ferghana Valley. Some trucks and an untold number of the passenger cars no doubt had hidden cargo. The road is heavily used by drug traffickers ferrying heroin and opium from Afghanistan to the markets of Russia and Europe. nytimes.com More authoritatively, usembassy.state.gov . The Bin Laden connection here may be conjecture. But money is fungible, and the Afghan bad guys seem fungible enough to me too. I don't even think money is that big an issue, with the guys living under deep cover in the US They had jobs. Box cutters don't cost much. This isn't like a CIA operation where everybody's expecting to turn a profit. A million or 2 isn't that much, and it probably didn't take much more than that for this particular operation.