In an interview in December 1999, Taliban official Maulvi Hafeezullah said: ” ‘We will never hand over bin Laden. The U.S. has made a monster out of one man. We can unleash a *heroin bomb* to match your nuclear bomb.’ This was a nod to the fact that Afghanistan, under the Taliban, had been recently cited by the United Nations as the world’s leading producer of opium, the raw material of heroin.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc., Page 146