The Guardian reports that unnamed scriptwriters on the unnamed follow up to Quantum of Solace have been seeking technical advice from the British Embassy in Kabul.
That could, possibly mean that the top secret plot might possibly, at some point, *possibly *take in the drug-funded insurgency in the Helmand Province, which has been occupying thousands of NATO troops since 2006.
Bond went to Afghanistan before, in the 1987 Timothy Dalton starrer The Living Daylights.
Eon Productions aren't talking, so file this under "seriously only a rumour" for now.