50 Afghan drug lords on Pentagon 'hit list'

WASHINGTON: The United States has reportedly made a list of 50 Afghan drug-traffickers with links to the Taliban to be either captured or killed--in another major shift in American counter-narcotics policy in Afghanistan, a report in a major U.S. daily said Monday.Quoting from interviews with two U.S. generals in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report to be released this week, the daily said the policy was aimed at disrupting the flow of drug money to finance Taliban operations.The general officers said major traffickers with proven links to the insurgency were put on the "joint integrated prioritized target list"--that assigned drug-traffickers the same target status as insurgent leaders, and could be either captured or killed any time.