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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Tuttles Almanac" |
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07 Mar 2006 08:06:33 PM |
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Catch-22: Bumper Crop for Afghanistan Heroin |
Fight to stem bumper opium crop
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/afghanistan.poppies.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Springtime is on the way and already
hundreds of farmers are tending pale green shoots of Afghanistan's
chief crop and economic mainstay: opium poppies.
It looks to be a bumper year. Some 320,000 acres are currently
blanketed in rows of dandelion-like sprouts that eventually produce
almost 90 percent of the world's heroin.
"There's going to be a continuous effort in spring and summer,"
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, the top American commander
in Afghanistan, said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press.
When the Taliban ran Afghanistan, its leader enforced an
effective ban on poppy growing under threat of jail.
As a result, cultivation dropped to practically nothing in 2000.
The dramatic increase in poppy cultivation since U.S. forces
ousted the Taliban from power in late 2001 has caused alarm
in the West, particularly Europe, the destination of most of the drugs.
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Milo Minderbinder: We're gonna come out of this war rich!
Yossarian: You're gonna come out rich. We're gonna come out dead.
"What's good for M & M Enterprises will be good for the country."
- Milo Minderbinder
That's some catch that Catch-22.
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| User: "Dion" |
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| Title: Re: Catch-22: Bumper Crop for Afghanistan Heroin |
07 Mar 2006 08:16:51 PM |
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It looks to be a bumper year. Some 320,000 acres are currently
blanketed in rows of dandelion-like sprouts that eventually produce
almost 90 percent of the world's heroin.
Mission Accomplished!
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| User: "Rich Travsky " |
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| Title: Re: Catch-22: Bumper Crop for Afghanistan Heroin |
07 Mar 2006 10:01:13 PM |
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Dion wrote:
It looks to be a bumper year. Some 320,000 acres are currently
blanketed in rows of dandelion-like sprouts that eventually produce
almost 90 percent of the world's heroin.
Mission Accomplished!
Doing a heckuva job!
RT
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