Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda

Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about America's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn half a billion dollars every year off the opium trade. With the breakneck pace of a thriller, author Gretchen Peters traces their illicit activities from vast poppy fields in southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai. Gretchen Peters covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade.

WACC Speaker Series, December 3rd
Westin Charlotte, 601 S. College St.
12:00 p.m.
$ 40 members / $ 55 non-members
*Lunch included

Reservations can be made online at www.worldaffairscharlotte.org, by e-mail at info@worldaffairscharlotte.org, or by calling 704-687-7762.