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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
02 Jun 2004 10:13:36 AM |
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Narcotics are good for democracy |
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/13000_Afghanistan.html
Narcotics are good for democracy
06/02/2004
Afghan plant-growers gathered new big harvest of raw materials for
producing drugs.
Soon tireless couriers will deliver the high quality drugs all over
the world, and the bulk of the drugs will be brought to the
countries-members of the anti-terrorist coalition.
Terrorists are not going to give up, they have enough weapons and
finance.
Producing drugs is one of their sources of income.
Two years passed after the USA took over Afghanistan, but the US is
still unable to distract the majority of Afghanis from their "peaceful
agricultural business".
According to the Washington Times, Head of the United Committee of
Chiefs of Staffs, general Richard Myers visited Afghanistan in April
and saw that producing opium poses a threat to the stability, not only
in Afghanistan.
He shared his concerns with US Defense Minister Donald Ramsfeld.
However, the Defense Minister seems have other pressing problems: at
that time he had the photos compromising US troops in Iraq, on his
desk.
Many US analysts are coming to the conclusion that al-Qaida receives
drugs from Afghanistan.
The money earned by selling drugs, is directed to funding terrorist
activities worldwide.
Surprisingly, the USA prefers to ignore Afghani"s producing drugs.
At least, for the time being while "democracy is constructed in
Afghanistan".
Americans are afraid to start anti-drug campaign now - it is not
profitable politically and economically.
According to the Washington Times, 80 percent of Afghanis live in the
countryside and make their living by growing poppy.
Southern areas of the country are especially rich with poppy.
The British tried to persuade Afghanis to turn to growing expensive
spices, such as saffron.
However, the "people moving on the path of democracy" disliked the
idea.
Afghanis intend to continue to be the key suppliers of drugs for "Her
Majesty" as the majority of drugs sold in Great Britain, come from
Afghanistan.
Best friend of Americans Hamid Karzai needs good outcome of the
elections scheduled for September, and for this reason wants no
argument with the Afghani military leaders.
They are extremely busy now with controlling drug producing in their
regions.
Mr. Karzai is afraid to face rebellion if he deprive his "allies" and
"voters" of their job.
Americans use drug producers as informers reporting on the activities
of the Taliban and al-Qaida members, and do not want to confront
Afghan peasants either.
Bush"s administration considered the option of spreading the
weedkiller destroying poppy, from the air.
This tactic is applied in Columbia by the US Department of State
against Coca drug.
In Afghanistan Americans do not dare to do this not to make Afghan
military leaders angry.
In addition, poppy crops are too close to living areas.
US intelligence claims that some members of al-Qaida sell drugs from
Afghanistan, although they do not make much money on this.
Who knows?
Raw materials are transported to Pakistan and converted into "real"
narcotics.
There al-Qaida people purchase them.
This year coalition forces seized two big freights of narcotics being
transported for al-Qaida.
The Washington Times writes that Osama bin Laden turned to selling
drugs after he was deprived of his main sources of income - "charity
foundations" and "shelter companies".
Under the rule of Taliban in the end of the 1990s Afghanistan became
the leading producer of opium and heroin.
Finally Taliban leaders disliked this bad fame and they tried to
reduce the amount of producing drugs, but then the coalition troops
arrived and introduced the idea that narcotics are compatible with
democracy.
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Afghan-grown narcotics coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Harry
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