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  • Most New U.S. Forces for Afghanistan Will Be Sent to Taliban Stronghold in South (Today) 3 Dec 2009 09:08 GMT
    ... Most New U.S. Forces for Afghanistan Will Be Sent to Taliban Stronghold in ... land that produces a majority of Afghanistan's opium -- and a good deal of the Taliban's ...

  • AFGHANISTAN: Addiction Main Channel of AIDS Transmission in Afghanistan: Health Minister 3 Dec 2009 08:58 GMT
    ... may have changed since the publication date. AFGHANISTAN: Addiction Main Channel of AIDS Transmission in ... of public health said, "Addiction, especially using heroin through injection, continues to be the main channel ...

  • Good luck, President Obama 3 Dec 2009 08:57 GMT
    ... HAVILAND SMITH - Published: December 3, 2009 President Obama ... that we are going to remain in Afghanistan long enough to train security forces capable ... children." All the Marines questioned said that narcotics use was so high that it seriously ...

  • Analysis: Obama Borrows Soviet's Afghan Endgame 3 Dec 2009 07:58 GMT
    ... The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan bears ominous similarities to the disastrous Soviet ... largely homegrown and self-financed, in part through opium production. No government in the world publicly supports ...

  • Clash with gunmen in south Iran kills 4 policemen 3 Dec 2009 07:52 GMT
    ... government-owned newspaper says a clash with armed drug ... leaving some 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of opium and hashish at the site. Thursday's report provided no ... Iranian authorities confiscate hundreds of tons of narcotics, mostly opium, every year. ...

  • Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire 3 Dec 2009 07:10 GMT
    ... Waist-deep in the big desert, the orders arrive ... to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan shouldn't come as a surprise. In contrast ... staving off disaster in Pakistan, suppressing the opium trade, clumsily spreading pseudo-democracy – and each has ...

  • With Troop Pledge, New Demands on Afghans (Yesterday) 3 Dec 2009 06:58 GMT
    ... With Troop Pledge, New Demands on Afghans By DEXTER ... bring a central player in the country's opium trade, a primary source of money for Taliban insurgents. ... more money by facilitating the movement of narcotics. Yet for all the worries about corruption, ...

  • Call Murtha a skeptic about Afghan policy 3 Dec 2009 06:58 GMT
    ... Call Murtha a skeptic about Afghan policy After meeting with Obama, he is ... production? Have you changed some of the poppy fields from poppy to agriculture? "I get a ...

  • Call Murtha a skeptic about Afghan policy (Today) 3 Dec 2009 06:58 GMT
    ... Call Murtha a skeptic about Afghan policy After meeting with Obama, he is ... production? Have you changed some of the poppy fields from poppy to agriculture? "I get a ...

  • 84 Christmas trees for Norfolk festival 3 Dec 2009 06:55 GMT
    ... Over the next few weeks, tens of thousands of ... this year is the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal, whose tree is decorated with 236 poppies ... with 236 poppies representing British losses in Afghanistan. It includes a bouquet in honour of ...

  • Will Iran Help or Hinder Obama in Afghanistan? 3 Dec 2009 06:03 GMT
    ... President Obama referred to Pakistan no fewer than ... his West Point speech, stressing that his Afghanistan strategy cannot work without the help of ... shares the U.S. desire to curtail Afghanistan's opium trade. If anything, "Tehran stands to lose much ...

  • News Analysis: With Troop Pledge, New Demands on Afghans 3 Dec 2009 05:15 GMT
    ... Will 30,000 additional troops be sufficient to curb the ... being a central player in the country's opium trade, a primary source of money for Taliban insurgents. ... more money by facilitating the movement of narcotics. Yet for all the worries about corruption, ...

  • Give Afghan farmers an option to opium 3 Dec 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... In 2008, the export value of opium from Afghanistan was estimated at $3.4 billion. ... convince Afghan farmers to trade in their poppy seeds for ones that can bring in ...

  • Angry at Afghan War? Build Something 3 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... Afghanistan is far more mountainous and difficult to ... family -- were exposed as knee-deep in narcotics.) Some trends in Afghanistan show traces of ...

  • Afghanistan: 'Roach Motel' for Empires 3 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... Afghanistan is far more mountainous and difficult to ... family -- were exposed as knee-deep in narcotics.) Some trends in Afghanistan show traces of ...


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