(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Afghan authorities doused piles of illegal drugs in petrol before setting them on fire near the capital Kabul on Sunday (October 14).<br/> <br />Officials from the Afghan government, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the U.S. embassy watched the 24.5 tonnes of drugs being destroyed.<br/> <br />Afghanistan has long been the world's leading supplier of opium.<br/> <br />It supplies about 90 percent of the world's opium, from which heroin is made, and its poppy-driven economy helps fuel the decade-long war, lining insurgents' pockets with more than $100 million a year and earning traffickers billions more.
