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Entries Tagged as 'Afghanistan'

NATO won’t destroy Afghan poppy fields

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments

NATO has rejected an appeal made by Russia for eradication of opium fields in Afghanistan, arguing that the sole source of income in the region cannot be removed

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Tags: Afghanistan · Drugs

Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments

“According to our indisputable information, the presence of the United States, Britain and Canada has not reduced the drug trade and the three countries have had major roles in the distribution of drugs,” IRIB quoted Taheri as saying on Thursday

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Tags: Afghanistan · Drugs · Iran

Low Price, High Potency Spike Heroin Deaths

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments

A lethal combination of rock bottom prices combined with a spike in the potency and availability of heroin on Massachusetts streets has led to a startling increase in the number of heroin-related deaths in recent years.NewsCenter 5’s Bianca de la Garza reported Tuesday that the state’s heroin crisis has spread from inner cities to tranquil suburbs

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Tags: Afghanistan · Drugs

Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

American mercenaries in Pakistan are hundreds of miles away from areas believed to be hiding terrorists, involved in “operations” that can’t have anything whatsoever to do with any CIA contract. These mercenaries aren’t in Quetta, Waziristan or FATA supporting our troops, they are in Karachi and Islamabad playing with police and government officials and living the life of the fatted calf.

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Tags: Afghanistan · Corruption · Cover-up / Intelligence Services · Drugs · Pakistan

Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade

November 29th, 2009 · No Comments

The U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington’s payroll. Now the Americans, acting as Boss of All Bosses, have drawn up hit lists of rival, “Taliban” drug lords. “It is a gangster occupation, in which U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol.”

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Tags: Afghanistan · Corruption · Cover-up / Intelligence Services · Drugs

The Deceit of Depleted Uranium use in Afghanistan – Part 1

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

US and NATO forces have and continue to use weapons containing uranium components in Afghanistan, Iraq and other war theatres around the globe.

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Tags: Afghanistan · Depleted Uranium · Media Disinformation

Marines Bypass Taliban Opium Fields in Afghanistan

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments

24th Marine Expe­di­tionary Unit moved into south­ern Hel­mand province, the world’s largest opium poppy-growing region, and now find them­selves sur­rounded by green fields of the ille­gal plants that pro­duce the main ingre­di­ent of heroin

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Tags: Afghanistan · Drugs · Pakistan

Nato forces rely on illegal Afghan militias, CIC report says

September 19th, 2009 · No Comments

NATO forces in Afghanistan are increasingly reliant on illegal militias, often run by warlords responsible for human rights abuses and drug trafficking

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Tags: Afghanistan · Cover-up / Intelligence Services · Current Events

U.N.: Opium Trade Soars in Afghanistan

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments

The opium trade has soared since the U.S.-led 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, which had eradicated almost all of the country’s opium poppies in 2001. Afghan opium cultivation grew 17 percent last year, continuing a six-year expansion of the country’s drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92 percent, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released Thursday by the United Nations.

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Tags: Afghanistan · Current Events · Drugs

Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

May 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off

“More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991,” said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. “The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive.”

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Tags: Afghanistan · Current Events · Depleted Uranium

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