News release: “The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has issued a report titled, News release: “Afghanistan’s Narco War: Breaking the Link between Drug Traffickers and Insurgents, examining the new U.S. counter-narcotics strategy in Afghanistan. The Obama Administration has deemphasized opium poppy eradication and is focused for the first time on breaking the link between the narcotics trade and the Taliban. The aim is to deny money to the insurgency, which has been collecting millions of dollars a year in taxes and protection money from opium smugglers. The strategy reflects a new, interagency approach in which the military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies from the participating countries are working together to identify trafficking networks linked to the insurgency.”