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Kansas City Star
November 21, 2009
Liberty Maven
November 20, 2009
Per the most recent, highly detailed
United Nations report, the opium crop is over twice the pre-invasion levels. In fact, up until the invasion in November ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 20, 2009
He promised to deal with opium production - 90 per cent of the world total - which also feeds
corruption and the insurgency, and to hold a "loya jirga", ...
Courthouse News Service
November 20, 2009
There is a simple way to solve the "problem" of Afghanistan's opium production, which accounts for 90 percent of the world's supply. ...
National Journal (blog)
November 19, 2009
Surging poppy production in
Afghanistan feeds the heroin addiction that is tearing at Russian society, and drug trafficking in
Central Asia threatens ...
Canada.com
November 19, 2009
Helmand province in southern
Afghanistan produces 90 per cent of Afghanistan's opium poppy crop. * About two thirds of the opium is turned into heroin ...
Radio France Internationale
November 19, 2009
Such measures are also a key factor in the fight against opium production. Apart from the references to his fraught relations with his current political ...
Imperial Valley Weekly
November 19, 2009
And Slim just left town. We're protecting the poppy fields of
Afghanistan. It's their major cash crop. Opium and heroin come from poppies. ...
ABC Online
November 19, 2009
Tasmania's biggest ever poppy crop is starting to flower, but growers are being warned about increasing competition from the
UK. ...
RT
November 18, 2009
Against the backdrop of ominous demographic figures, Russian leaders have made repeated calls for
the United States to crackdown on Afghan opium, ...
Canada.com
November 18, 2009
Detroit Free Press
November 18, 2009
The
economy of the country is based on the growing and selling of the opium that feeds almost all of the heroin production in the world and is controlled by ...
Vancouver Sun
November 17, 2009
Progressive.org
November 16, 2009
Afghanistan, which continues to supply 90 percent of the world's opium, has had some limited success with a combination of legal crackdowns and crop ...
Times Online
November 12, 2009
Mr Sherzai managed to cut opium production in Nangahar but he is accused of farming the illegal crop on his land in
Kandahar. His family has grown rich on ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
November 11, 2009
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The North Bay Nugget
November 11, 2009
According to a UN report, opium production
Get Surrey
November 11, 2009
âÂÂWe're very fortunate to be doing the poppy
Long War Journal
November 11, 2009
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New York Times
November 11, 2009
Afghanistan produced 185 tons of opium under the
Taliban. The amount surged to 3400 tons and by 2007 opium trade reached all-time high of 8200 tons. ...
the US and its allies with 103000 troosps in
Afghanistan are also primarily responsible for the record rise in opium-poppy production and drug-trafficking ...
Law.com
November 9, 2009
"He read everything he could get his hands on, about the history and
culture of the country, the opium production
Kabul is experiencing a building boom founded on the proceeds of opium production -- the world's highest -- with massive houses dubbed âÂÂpoppy palacesâ ...
"The more people who are employed in this legitimate farm
economy, the fewer people going to be growing opium for the drug rings or being directly employed ...
The only cash crop the country has in abundance is the Poppy. A crop that's worth (in Western countries anyway, who knows how much to those thousands of ...
The only cash crop the country has in abundance is the Poppy. A crop that's worth (in Western countries anyway, who knows how much to those thousands of ...
The only cash crop the country has in abundance is the Poppy. A crop that's worth (in Western countries anyway, who knows how much to those thousands of ...
In the last 12 months there has been a 38% reduction in the poppy harvest in
Helmand. Wheat has become the crop of choice in Governor Mangal's food zone. ...
In all,
Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the planet's opium and, thus, 80 percent of its heroin. Such violence,
corruption, opium production, ...
In all,
Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the planet's opium and, thus, 80 percent of its heroin. Such violence,
corruption, opium production, ...
Times of India
November 4, 2009
These revelations are clearly hinting at a large-scale production
Morning Star Online
November 4, 2009
He also warned of widespread drug addiction among the local officers, alluding to the boom in opium production
Seattle Times
November 4, 2009
Manila Bulletin
November 4, 2009
AP
President Karzai of
Afghanistan has just stolen an election and gotten away with it. Despite being universally criticized as corrupt and incompetent, ...
Controlling opium production is a Sisyphean task -- hopelessly futile. Trying to eradicate the crop creates perverse incentives that actually lead to ...
Controlling opium production is a Sisyphean task -- hopelessly futile. Trying to eradicate the crop creates perverse incentives that actually lead to ...
