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Just to remind its U.K. readers of the ‘noble cause’
for which British troops are occupying, killing people and getting killed
in Afghanistan, London’s
The Daily Mail reported in February:
“The opium trade now constitutes 40 per cent of the
entire economy of Afghanistan. This is the highest harvests
of opium the world as ever seen. But there is now more than just raw
opium produced there.
“In fact Afghanistan no
longer exports much raw opium at all. It now exports not opium, but
heroin. Opium is converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in
kitchens but in factories. Millions of gallons of the chemicals needed
for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and
bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads, improved
by American aid, with NATO troops.”
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