1.   About a ton of Afghan heroin reaches the United States each year, the report said.

2.   However, even eliminating the Taliban may not be enough to stop the Afghan heroin trade.

3.   In recent months, US customs officials have made seizures of Afghan heroin in airports in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

4.   Moreover, the United States is now the recipient of much of the Afghan heroin drug production.

5.   So too were officials in northern Europe, even though their cities were awash in Afghan heroin.

6.   The Afghan antiquities trade is becoming so lucrative that it now ranks second to the Afghan heroin trade, officials say.

7.   The price of Afghan heroin has dropped, but police departments across Europe say that is unlikely to affect street prices much and has not done so to date.

8.   Afghan heroin and hashish are sold on the streets of Europe and the United States, smuggled out through Pakistan and increasingly through Central Asian neighbors.

9.   Kyrgyzstan is part of a trafficking route for Afghan heroin headed for Russia and Western Europe.

10.   Neither Uzbekistan, Tajikistan nor Kyrgyzstan produces drugs but all three have served as conduits for Afghan heroin and other narcotics earmarked for Russia and Europe.