Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army, talks with members of Combined Joint Task Force - 101 at Combat Outpost Marghah, Afghanistan, on Nov. 6, 2008. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Bradley A. Lail, U.S. Air Force. (Released)NATO To Target Drug Trade In Afghanistan -- New York Times
BERLIN — NATO will remain within international law when it proceeds with new measures to kill drug traffickers in Afghanistan and bomb drug processing laboratories to deprive the Taliban of its main financing, the alliance’s secretary general said Wednesday.
The official, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said that “a number of buffers and filters” had been put in place to safeguard the legality of combating what he termed the nexus between the insurgency and narcotics.
“It is according to international law,” he said. “And if nations at a certain stage think that they would rather not participate, they will not be forced to participate.”
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