Fw: Successful Afghan war = cheaper drugs

[Jim Strong]

The Green, the Reds, they can't hold a candle to the
Rainbowzoes!
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Billy Jim


--- Jim Baldauf <jfbaldauf@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Ghettoites:
> I take the liberty of forwarding this story from our
> own Roger
> Baker, originally posted to a less patriotic list:
> The Greens!
> (Used to be The Reds.)
> Jim Bob
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Roger Baker 
> Cc: austinagainstwar@yahoogroups.com ;
> texgreen@envirolink.org 
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:35 PM
> Subject: Successful Afghan war = cheaper drugs
> 
> 
> The return of cheap Afghani hash now that the
> straitlaced Taliban is gone 
> could even be a good thing, depending on who you
> ask, but in any case 
> resident Bush will deserve a lot of the credit. --
> Roger
> 
>                       
> *******************************
>  
> from
>
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=116264
> 
> Main drug control agency in Kabul is evicted
> By Patrick Cockburn in Kabul
> 25 January 2002
> Despite promises to crack down on the drugs trade,
> the new Afghan government has evicted the main drug
> control agency from its headquarters in Kabul and
> taken its vehicles.
> 
> "They literally threw us into the street," said Mir
> Najibullah Shams, the Secretary-General of the State
> High Commission for Drug Control. "I don't have a
> phone to call up commanders in the provinces. They
> didn't even leave us with a bicycle."
> 
> The contempt with which the new Afghan
> administration has treated its main drugs agency
> bodes ill for any attempt to curtail opium and
> heroin production in Afghanistan. This is despite
> promises by the new administration at the summit on
> aid to Afghanistan in Tokyo this week that it would
> try to reduce the flow of narcotics out of the
> country in return for $4.5bn (£3.2bn) from donors.
> 
> Afghanistan is the world's largest exporter of
> heroin and provides about 80 per cent of Western
> Europe's supply and an even higher proportion of
> heroin used in Russia and Central Asia. Between a
> third and a half of the Afghan population is
> believed by experts to be involved in growing,
> producing or trafficking in narcotics.
> 
> Mr Shams, who has taken refuge in a room in the
> Afghan Foreign Ministry, showed a number of maps
> illustrating the huge increase in the mid-nineties
> in the number of provinces growing opium poppies.
> Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, had successfully
> banned the planting of poppies in 1999, but the
> collapse of central government control in much of
> Afghanistan in the last two months may mean that
> farmers will once again produce opium.
> 
> The former headquarters of the High Commission for
> Drug Control is a substantial three-storey building
> which has been taken over by a newspaper called
> Payam-I-Mujaihid which supports the government. Mr
> Shams admits that its 300 employees were never able
> to do very much about narcotics because "until you
> solve the problems of the Afghan farmers they will
> produce drugs. What do you expect them to do when
> they are dressed in rags and their children have
> nothing to eat?" 
> 
> 
> 


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