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10-14-2013, 05:31 AM
Afghanistan risks becoming 'narco-state': U.N. official | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/09/us-afghanistan-drugs-un-idUSBRE9980OF20131009)
Afghanistan risks becoming 'narco-state': U.N. official
what a Joke Afghanistan has been a Narco state for the past 10 year
Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), painted a bleak picture of Afghanistan’s narcotics problem before next year’s withdrawal of NATO-led combat forces.
"…we have a serious risk that without international support, without more meaningful assistance, this country may continue to evolve into a full-fledged narco-state,” he said
but the same article continues with this factual statement:
Afghanistan is the world’s top producer of opium, from which heroin is made and which helps fund the Taliban’s insurgency.
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OK soooo, how could you get a higher ranking than that, The World’s Top Producer of Opium? How in the world would they evolve into a full-fledged narco-state, when they’ve been there for over a decade?
and for some history...
In the 1970s Afghanistan produced ZERO amounts of heroin. In other words, they didn’t produce any heroin. Then, the United States with its CIA came in and began supporting the Afghans against the Communist Soviets. And guess what happened? Let’s see what documented facts. Here is an article from Economist (http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/04/heroin_afghanistan):
Although this area had zero heroin production in the mid-1970s, the CIA’s covert war served as the catalyst that transformed the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands into the world’s largest heroin producing region. As mujahedeen guerrillas captured prime agricultural areas inside Afghanistan in the early 1980s, they began collecting a revolutionary poppy tax from their peasant supporters.
… Between 1981 and 1990, Afghanistan’s opium production grew ten-fold—from 250 tons to 2,000 tons. After just two years of covert CIA support for the Afghan guerrillas, the U.S. Attorney General announced in 1981 that Pakistan was already the source of 60% of the American heroin supply.
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...After a dramatic fall off in production after the ussr war..
Here is what happened next, from Dr. Alfred McCoy reporting via Mother Jones: (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/narco-state-opium-afghanistan)
Since the US military intervened in 2001, a rising tide of opium has corrupted the government in Kabul while empowering a resurgent Taliban whose guerrillas have taken control of ever larger parts of the Afghan countryside.
These three eras of almost constant warfare fueled a relentless rise in Afghanistan’s opium harvest—from just 250 tons in 1979 to 8,200 tons in 2007. For the past five years, the Afghan opium harvest has accounted for as much as 50% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and provided the prime ingredient for over 90% of the world’s heroin supply.
- See more at: Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate Minority (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/10/09/joke-of-the-day-un-says-afghanistan-risks-becoming-narco-state/#more-24953)
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Afghanistan risks becoming 'narco-state': U.N. official
what a Joke Afghanistan has been a Narco state for the past 10 year
Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), painted a bleak picture of Afghanistan’s narcotics problem before next year’s withdrawal of NATO-led combat forces.
"…we have a serious risk that without international support, without more meaningful assistance, this country may continue to evolve into a full-fledged narco-state,” he said
but the same article continues with this factual statement:
Afghanistan is the world’s top producer of opium, from which heroin is made and which helps fund the Taliban’s insurgency.
…
OK soooo, how could you get a higher ranking than that, The World’s Top Producer of Opium? How in the world would they evolve into a full-fledged narco-state, when they’ve been there for over a decade?
and for some history...
In the 1970s Afghanistan produced ZERO amounts of heroin. In other words, they didn’t produce any heroin. Then, the United States with its CIA came in and began supporting the Afghans against the Communist Soviets. And guess what happened? Let’s see what documented facts. Here is an article from Economist (http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/04/heroin_afghanistan):
Although this area had zero heroin production in the mid-1970s, the CIA’s covert war served as the catalyst that transformed the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands into the world’s largest heroin producing region. As mujahedeen guerrillas captured prime agricultural areas inside Afghanistan in the early 1980s, they began collecting a revolutionary poppy tax from their peasant supporters.
… Between 1981 and 1990, Afghanistan’s opium production grew ten-fold—from 250 tons to 2,000 tons. After just two years of covert CIA support for the Afghan guerrillas, the U.S. Attorney General announced in 1981 that Pakistan was already the source of 60% of the American heroin supply.
.....
...After a dramatic fall off in production after the ussr war..
Here is what happened next, from Dr. Alfred McCoy reporting via Mother Jones: (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/narco-state-opium-afghanistan)
Since the US military intervened in 2001, a rising tide of opium has corrupted the government in Kabul while empowering a resurgent Taliban whose guerrillas have taken control of ever larger parts of the Afghan countryside.
These three eras of almost constant warfare fueled a relentless rise in Afghanistan’s opium harvest—from just 250 tons in 1979 to 8,200 tons in 2007. For the past five years, the Afghan opium harvest has accounted for as much as 50% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and provided the prime ingredient for over 90% of the world’s heroin supply.
- See more at: Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate Minority (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/10/09/joke-of-the-day-un-says-afghanistan-risks-becoming-narco-state/#more-24953)
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