UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush — RT
via UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush — RT. The “War on Drugs” that came soon after the “War on Terror” is being decisively lost. Ten years after the US invasion Afghanistan remains the world’s biggest opium poppy producer. Meanwhile, the UK is making inroads to the market. As the West struggles to destroy drug production [...]
Report: Top anti-drug official was ’secret ally of drug lords’
Stephen Webster | RawStory.com DEA says key ICE official sold info about informants, ran Panamanian cocaine to Spain via US ports Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran anti-drug official, is behind bars, arrested after officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling important information in law enforcement [...]
Gates: US Military Can Help Mexico in Drug War
Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com In an interview today on NBC, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US is in position to provide more help to the Mexican government to continue its fighting against drug cartels along the two nations’ border. Gates declared the drug war “a serious problem,” and said that he envisions the US [...]
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New York Times Misleads on Taliban Role in Opium Trade
Jeremy R Hammond | DissidentVoice.org The New York Times reported this week that the Taliban have cut back on poppy cultivation and is stockpiling opium, grossly overstating the group’s role in the Afghanistan drug trade. “Afghanistan has produced so much opium in recent years,” the Timesreported Thursday, “that the Taliban are cutting poppy cultivation and stockpiling raw opium in an [...]
The Post-9/11 Afghan Heroin Explosion
From American Drug War The War on Drugs. The War on Terror. Narco-Terrorism. Prior to 9/11, the poppy production levels in Afghanistan were at a low and many of the Taliban were against heroin and the poppies. However, since U.S. forces entered after 9/11, the poppy crop has skyrocketed. The UN released a report saying [...]
