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Afghanistan can't stop heroin supply

Beijing News.Net
Monday 3rd September, 2007

Afghanistan's first vice-president has called for tougher penalties for opium poppy cultivation, including aerial spraying.

Ahmad Zia Masood says British efforts to combat opium production in southern Afghanistan have completely failed, yet the U.K and the United States had spent millions of dollars to stop the trade.

Mr Masood pointed out that Helmand, in southern Afghanistan, where the British are based, has enormous poppy fields, allowing the province to produce half of Afghanistan's opium.

United Nations' figures released last week showed opium production rose by 34 per cent this year in Afghanistan.

The UN has revealed Afghanistan's opium crop has risen every year since US-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001.

Opium poppies are used to make heroin, which outlawed Taliban forces are able to sell for enormous profits.

 

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Amenhotep V
09-03-07, 12:18 PM

Afghanistan can't stop heroin supply

Why doesn’t the United Nations buy the opium and sell it to hospitals in the refined product as morphine? What makes you think that the British Crown and the United States are not selling the unrefined product to the drug manufacturers in the name of war and Zionist imperialism and Crown God imperialism?

Anonymous
09-03-07, 04:40 PM

That market exist

Amenhotep V;42332:
Why doesn’t the United Nations buy the opium and sell it to hospitals in the refined product as morphine? What makes you think that the British Crown and the United States are not selling the unrefined product to the drug manufacturers in the name of war and Zionist imperialism and Crown God imperialism?




Not all opium grown is for illegal purposes.

The rest of your post is crap and smacks of certain conspiracy talk show hosts.

Kabul
09-04-07, 04:37 AM

Anonymous, well said. Amenhotep V is one of those who would swear that Israel was behind 9/11. Just another comedian that should be doing stand-up comedy.

T/M
09-05-07, 07:26 PM

Fithing the drg firlds

Was there any opium cultivation in Afghanistan befor USSR invasion?If not what could have been the root causes, after the wars ,till now ?

There are many ways to stop it. Either sending troops to fight the farmmers instead of fighting Talban. It means, stopping farmmers from growing opium stopps the fundings,Taliban recieves
from those farmmers, which i am sure that 95 percent of them are Taliban themselves.

The seccond option is to send all the money which gathers from Wstern countries dirrect to Afghans to deal with the matter themselves!!! Not to NGOs and through them big sallaries for there workers.

waltky
10-06-07, 11:54 PM

Big fish goin' to prison...
;)

Afghan drug kingpin jailed for 15 years in New York
Sunday, October 7, 2007 - An Afghan heroin kingpin who was the first person ever extradited to the United States from Afghanistan was jailed for more than 15 years on Friday for running an international drugs ring.

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Baz Mohammad, 51, who has been described by President George W. Bush as one of the world’s most-wanted drug kingpins, pleaded guilty in a New York federal court in July last year to charges of conspiring to import heroin.

He was extradited to the United States under an order signed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in October 2005.

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waltky
03-05-08, 03:44 AM

Afghanistan main heroin producer...
:eek:
Afghan heroin production at all-time high: UN
5 Mar 2008, Heroin production in Afghanistan reached a new high in 2007 despite global efforts to battle the menace, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said on Wednesday in its annual report.

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According to the United Nations agency, Afghanistan produced an “exceptional quantity” of opium, at 8,200 tonnes, 34 percent more than in 2006. The country now accounts for 93 percent of all opiates on the global market, the report added. “The illegal cultivation of poppies for opium in Afghanistan (...) has reached a deeply worrying level despite the efforts of the (Afghan) government and the help of the international community over the last five years," the Vienna-based organisation said.

Poppy production was up 17 percent, covering 193,000 hectares (745 square miles) with a corresponding rise in yields from 37 kilogrammes (82 pounds) per hectare to 42.5 kilogrammes. The 2007 leap came on top of a 59 percent rise in the area given over to the plant over the previous 12 months. By comparison, only 19,000 hectares were cleared of the flower over the same period, with the INCB stressing that Afghan heroin is distributed worldwide — reaching an estimated 3.3 million addicts in Europe alone.

In other trends identified, Africa has emerged as a pivotal cocaine-route into Europe — with the organisation citing a “rapid growth in trafficking” amounting to between 200 and 300 tonnes from Latin America transiting through Africa last year. Elsewhere, a 70 percent hike in the number of internet sites distributing illegal medicine posed a “growing problem” for public health on a global level.

The INCB, however, noted a “stabilisation” in cannabis use after years of growth. The agency recommends greater cross-border cooperation, focused on producers and wholesalers. Composed of 13 independent advisers — doctors, pharmaceuticals and other experts — the body was established in 1968 to monitor the implementation of UN drug control conventions.

[url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Afghan_heroin_production_at_all-time_high_UN/articleshow/2838370.cms:

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