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"Harry Hope" |
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01 Mar 2005 08:37:11 PM |
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Drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan explodes. Iraq vulnerable. |
From The Associated Press, 3/1/05:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-drug-report,0,1857358.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Report: Drugs Threaten Afghanistan, Iraq
By SUSANNA LOOF
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria --
Drug trafficking threatens to undermine stability in Afghanistan and
hinder development in Iraq as the two countries attempt to emerge from
conflict and forge functioning democracies, a key U.N. drug control
body warned in a report released Wednesday.
The International Narcotics Control Board said drug production in
Afghanistan was so widespread it "has become a severe threat to this
new democracy, as well as the stability and economic recovery of the
country as a whole."
Drug production in Afghanistan reached a record level in 2004, defying
efforts to curb production.
"We are expecting that the international community help Afghanistan
.... so that the issue can be corrected before it's too late and
Afghanistan becomes a narcotic state," Hamid Ghodse, president of the
Vienna-based board, told reporters Tuesday.
"Once it becomes a narcotic state, the rule of the law, the democracy,
everything, will go out of the window."
The board, an independent body that monitors the implementation of
U.N. drug conventions and monitors the global supply of legal drugs,
also is concerned about Iraq, where traffickers could flourish in the
power vacuum that exists in the post-conflict environment, Ghodse
said.
"The complex interlinkage of terrorism, organized crime, corruption
and drug trafficking poses an unprecedented threat, raising concerns
that the overall situation may worsen," said the report.
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The junk should be showing up in neighborhoods purty soon.
Harry
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| User: "ranshaw" |
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| Title: Re: Drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan explodes. Iraq vulnerable. |
02 Mar 2005 07:05:10 AM |
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I wonder if the bags of US cash they are using to pay contractors in Iraq
comes from laundering Afghan drug money.
Barb
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| User: "Miles Long" |
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| Title: Re: Drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan explodes. Iraqvulnerable. |
02 Mar 2005 08:46:47 AM |
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ranshaw wrote:
I wonder if the bags of US cash they are using to pay contractors in Iraq
comes from laundering Afghan drug money.
Barb
Unfortunately not. That cash goes to fund the illegal activities of our
security services. No, the bags of cash going to contractors come out
of the pockets of middle class and poor Americans.
Miles "Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice, I'm A Bush Supporter" Long
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