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  • Text of Obama's Berlin Speech 25 Jul 2008 21:34 GMT
    ... in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide ...

  • Karzai shielding narcotics trade' 25 Jul 2008 20:35 GMT
    ... point man in the fight against the heroin trade in Afghanistan has accused Afghan President ... government was deeply involved in shielding the opium trade. “While it is true that Karzai’s ... said Nato allies have also resisted the anti-poppy offensive. “The British military were even more ...

  • Afghanistan is Not Iraq: Reasons to Be Wary of Another Surge 25 Jul 2008 19:58 GMT
    ... U.S. soldiers in a remote outpost in Afghanistan on July 13, Sens. McCain and Obama ... in Afghanistan have a different resource base: heroin. Oil fuels some insurgent capabilities in Iraq, ... cannot be compared to the challenge of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. Over 90 percent of the ...

  • Karzai dismisses accusation 25 Jul 2008 19:55 GMT
    ... "This campaign is a long-term, time-consuming campaign," Karzai ... to bringing peace in our country." The Afghan leader responded to accusations by former U.S. ... the BBC the claims ignore reality. "The poppy cultivation right now is up and around 200,000 ...

  • Karzai protecting drug lords - ex-U.S. anti-drug official 25 Jul 2008 19:36 GMT
    ... was one of the State Department’s senior counter-narcotics officials, accused Karzai of protecting drug lords ... base in the country’s south, where most opium and heroin is produced. "Karzai was playing us like ...

  • Video: Barack Obama stakes claim as new JFK the day before arriving in Britain 25 Jul 2008 19:31 GMT
    ... in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. "The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide ...

  • Afghan President 'Hurting Drug War' 25 Jul 2008 19:31 GMT
    ... is obstructing the fight against Afghanistan's burgeoning narcotics trade and protecting drug lords for political ... base in the country's south, where most opium and heroin is produced. "Karzai was playing us like ...

  • Ex-US Official: Afghan President Hurting Drug War 25 Jul 2008 19:28 GMT
    ... is obstructing the fight against Afghanistan's burgeoning narcotics trade and protecting drug lords for political ... base in the country's south, where most opium and heroin is produced. "Karzai was playing us like ...

  • Karzai aids drug lords, former U.S. official says 25 Jul 2008 16:54 GMT
    ... was one of the State Department's senior counter-narcotics officials, accused Karzai of protecting drug lords ... base in the country's south, where most opium and heroin is produced. "Karzai was playing us like ...

  • Obama tells Europe to 'expect better from US' 25 Jul 2008 16:50 GMT
    ... in the anti-terror campaign, more troops in Afghanistan. Under a monument to Prussian military triumphs, ... world: "The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin." It is not a popular message ...

  • Senator Obama's Excellent Adventure 25 Jul 2008 16:33 GMT
    ... Georgetown, SC - “What’s this guy running for, ... the backboards. Then, it was on to Afghanistan for a surreal meeting in Jalalabad with ... suspected of being involved in the Afghan opium trade, no one in the mainstream media questioned ...

  • Guest Perspective: Barack Obama's Overseas Triumph is John McCain's Pain Here at Home 25 Jul 2008 15:49 GMT
    ... This is how Barack Obama's excellent international adventure began, ... -- was startling and hilarious. There was Poppy Bush at the wheel rocking the white turtleneck, ... the need to get more troops into Afghanistan,” Obama added. “But, I've never questioned that ...

  • 735kg of Heroin Withdrawn at Uzbek-Tajik Border in 2008 25 Jul 2008 14:50 GMT
    ... 735kg of Heroin Withdrawn at Uzbek-Tajik Border in 2008 Uzbekistan, ... of the country at the border with Afghanistan and Tajikistan). In the second case, an ... border and more than 52kg of crude opium and gun of TT model were withdrawn from ...

  • Barack Obama stakes claim as new JFK the day before arriving in Britain 25 Jul 2008 13:51 GMT
    ... in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. "The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide ...

  • Afghan president 'obstructing country's drugs problem' 25 Jul 2008 13:47 GMT
    ... Hamid Karzai has been accused of obstructing efforts to solve ... solve the drugs problem The president of Afghanistan has been accused of obstructing efforts to ... drugs problem. Thomas Schweich, a former US counter-narcotics official, accused Hamid Karzai of protecting drugs ...


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