Al Qa’idah town, Yemen. I visited it in 1997, 30-mins after meeting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:

1997 Yemen: I was vetted by Yousef over dinner before meeting to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:

Britain’s Third Opium War, fought 2005-13 in Helmand, favouring one drug trafficker over another:

This is a preview of a slideshow project on a NATO resupply convoy (about half done):