CNN Declassified September 23, 2019 02:13:00
Were killing our troops in afghanistan. >> he was having the drug traffickers pay the taliban as a form of jihad. he said that selling heroin to america was a way to kill infa dells. >> this was the first time we had done something like this, going after someone that was quite this powerful on an international scale. our purpose was not a military strike and take him out. our purpose was to gain the evidence needed to prosecute him in the u.s. courts. so there are two laws that we could use. the 959 law is for anyone distributing drugs destined for the united states. the 960 law is a narco-ter...