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<title>EIN News: Afghanistan Illicit Drugs News</title>
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<title>In Afghanistan, comedians find material in politics, other once-taboo subjects</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184108475</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 07:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cops, the poor behavior of international troops, heroin addiction, high food prices. But none of  ...  of the country&apos;s most popular stations. In Afghanistan, where violence, drugs and poverty seem to  ...
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<title>Crime and Warfare: An Anatomy of Terror</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184075312</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 03:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is a narcotics cartel with a residual political agenda. Of  ...  extortion campaign.&quot; In several rural areas in Afghanistan, the Taliban launched a campaign to shut  ...  comes from criminal enterprise and specifically the opium trade. ...
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<title>Karzai To Seek Re-Election In Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184071805</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 02:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  after four years in office, Karzai said Afghanistan does not yet have a functioning government,  ...  from his inability to stem the flourishing opium drug trade in which his political allies  ...
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<title>When Barack went to Kabul</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184065253</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 01:19 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  same Obama who didn&apos;t even know that Afghanistan doesn&apos;t need Arabic translators because they don&apos;t  ...  spring. And these days, one may add, opium poppies. According to Kabulpress, Sherzai is one  ...
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<title>Movie Review: Tropic Thunder</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184040136</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 21:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  , and his character is a raging heroin addict in an R-rated balls-out comedy, maybe  ...  writer, Stiller veers away from the numerous Afghanistan and Iraq War films that Hollywood has  ...
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<title>Afghan president to run again</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184036132</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 21:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  after four years in office, Karzai said Afghanistan does not yet have a functioning government,  ...  from his inability to stem the flourishing opium drug trade in which his political allies  ...
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<title>Afghan president says he will run for office again</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184023371</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 19:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  after four years in office, Karzai said Afghanistan does not yet have a functioning government,  ...  from his inability to stem the flourishing opium drug trade in which his political allies  ...
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<title>AP Interview: Afghanistan&apos;s Karzai says he will run for president again next year</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184022634</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday  ...  from his inability to stem the flourishing opium drug trade in which his political allies  ...
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<title>AFGHANISTAN: Can saffron replace poppy?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184009410</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 17:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Mohammad Tahir was dubious about not growing poppy on his one-acre plot of land in  ...  in Pashton Zargon District, Herat Province, western Afghanistan this year, but has now made a  ...
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<title>Pashtu speaking Paras: the face of the British Army in Helmand</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183992146</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 16:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of the British Army to which their Afghan National Army colleagues and the people of  ...  area is a hotbed of Taliban and narcotics industry activity. ANA and British patrols operating  ...
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<title>Letter (Web version): Obama&apos;s positions both good and bad</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183943909</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 10:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for talking about escalating the war in Afghanistan. He better read about Russia&apos;s debacle. The  ...  in Afghanistan is a 10-fold increase in poppy production since the United States has been  ...
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<title>We Succeed in Drug Struggling: Representative of Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183926051</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 08:12 GMT</pubDate>
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... We Succeed in Drug Struggling: Representative of Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics corr. D.Khatinoglu / The Afghan Government succeeded  ...  by the UN dating 2007, some 92% opium and 93% heroine were produced in Afghanistan.  ...
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<title>Nato meeting today to review ties with Russia</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183911129</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 05:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  scrutiny would be dialogue in counter-terrorism, counter narcotics and missile defence, he said. A senior  ...  ambitions to US access to Asia and Afghanistan. Russia is also a key energy supplier  ...
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<title>Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183905606</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and elsewhere. But the fight against terrorism is not about occupying foreign lands. Eradicating poppy fields that produce opium and heroin is another hopeless venture. &quot;Liberal democracies cannot win counterinsurgencies against the wills of local  ...
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<title>Rumours hit Afghan drug trade</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183889846</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 02:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the Afghan-Pakistan border are dumping stocks of opium on rumours that the Taliban is preparing to crack down on poppy smuggling. Farmers in Helmand and Kandahar, the  ...  saying that estimated stockpiles of opium and heroin are so enormous that even a drastic  ...
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