CHAPTER 6
6-42 NATO
6-42a Quotes
“After the US invasion of Afghanistan and under US-NATO control, heroin production and sales boomed.
Azerbaijan has become one of the most strategically important heroin transit hubs since it has joined NATO.
Just like Turkey, nations with airfields under US command, such as Kyrgyzstan’s Manas Airbase and
Azerbaijan’s NATO Air Fields, have become the most important transit hubs for heroin.”
Sibel Edmonds, 2013
“The main heroin supply routes from the NATO-dominated Afghanistan are a land heroin route through
Turkey, Bulgaria, Kosovo or Bosnia, and a maritime heroin route via Mediterranean trade lines to the
island of Corsica.
... How many tons of heroin were intercepted on merchant vessels in Mediterranean during more than
ten years of the NATO operation ‘Active Endeavour’? Not a single gram.
... Both NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Active Endeavour are perfectly
complying with their real mission: to ensure total control over production, transportation and distribution
of illegal drugs.”
www.voltairenet.org/, 2012
“The Afghan heroin business is one of Turkey’s major roles in the Gladio Operations under the
United States and NATO. Major aspects of heroin operations were moved from Turkey to Azerbaijan,
both in terms of labs and transit, after 1997, and intensified after Azerbaijan’s addition to NATO.”
Sibel Edmonds, 2013
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