Secretariat
03-01-2007, 04:42 PM
U.S. Sends 2 To Assess Drug Program For Afghans
April 25, 2001
By BARBARA CROSSETTE (NYT); Foreign Desk
Bush administration, in first cautious step toward reducing near-total isolation of Taliban, has sent two American narcotics experts to Afghanistan as part of United Nations team assessing how to help farmers who stop cultivating poppies; State Sec Colin L Powell confirms approving trip; Taliban reportedly has all but wiped out poppy crops in nation that had been world's largest opium producer and source of much of heroin sold in Europe
The cultivation, manufacturing and use of opium and all its derivatives are now considered illegal." - Hamid Karzai, 02/23/02 . (The Taliban had declared the same in 2000 per above)
Our policy is, as a country, that the heroin trade, the poppy business in that country, represents a fairly significant fraction of the world's heroin and that that's a bad thing and that the money that's going to the people that are doing that ends up doing things that are generally unhelpful to the United States of America and to the interim government of Afghanistan. Therefore, we have a very active interest in there not being a successful poppy crop this year that reaches the market. ..the United States is leaning forward to want to be helpful with that, because it's just an enormous amount of money involved that will end up funding crime, terrorism, various things to destabilize the interim government.
Donald Rumsfeld 03/25/02
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03/01/07
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070301/wl_asia_afp/usdrugsworld
Afghan opium output soars, flooding Europe Middle East with heroin: USby David Millikin
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Opium production in Afghanistan surged to record levels in 2006, increasing the flow of heroin to Europe and the Middle East and undermining the fight against Islamist insurgents, the US reported Thursday.
In its annual report on global narcotics, the State Department linked a 25 percent jump in opium production in Afghanistan during 2006 to the resurgence of the Taliban militia, which has reasserted control over swathes of the country from which they were ousted in 2001.
April 25, 2001
By BARBARA CROSSETTE (NYT); Foreign Desk
Bush administration, in first cautious step toward reducing near-total isolation of Taliban, has sent two American narcotics experts to Afghanistan as part of United Nations team assessing how to help farmers who stop cultivating poppies; State Sec Colin L Powell confirms approving trip; Taliban reportedly has all but wiped out poppy crops in nation that had been world's largest opium producer and source of much of heroin sold in Europe
The cultivation, manufacturing and use of opium and all its derivatives are now considered illegal." - Hamid Karzai, 02/23/02 . (The Taliban had declared the same in 2000 per above)
Our policy is, as a country, that the heroin trade, the poppy business in that country, represents a fairly significant fraction of the world's heroin and that that's a bad thing and that the money that's going to the people that are doing that ends up doing things that are generally unhelpful to the United States of America and to the interim government of Afghanistan. Therefore, we have a very active interest in there not being a successful poppy crop this year that reaches the market. ..the United States is leaning forward to want to be helpful with that, because it's just an enormous amount of money involved that will end up funding crime, terrorism, various things to destabilize the interim government.
Donald Rumsfeld 03/25/02
.
03/01/07
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070301/wl_asia_afp/usdrugsworld
Afghan opium output soars, flooding Europe Middle East with heroin: USby David Millikin
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Opium production in Afghanistan surged to record levels in 2006, increasing the flow of heroin to Europe and the Middle East and undermining the fight against Islamist insurgents, the US reported Thursday.
In its annual report on global narcotics, the State Department linked a 25 percent jump in opium production in Afghanistan during 2006 to the resurgence of the Taliban militia, which has reasserted control over swathes of the country from which they were ousted in 2001.