For Afghans, the enemy isn't Taliban but U.S.-backed warlords

[NNN0LHI]

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap09-07-110911.asp?reg=ASIA

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 7 — Along a potholed road in eastern Afghanistan, Mohammed Jan points through a cloud of dust at a line of mansions that seem out of place in such poverty-stricken surroundings.

''This is where the new, beautiful houses begin. They belong to the commanders. Their money is from drugs, from smuggling. They will never be caught. Their soldiers are working with the Americans,'' says Jan, himself a small-time opium grower.

Nearly two years after the collapse of Taliban rule, ordinary Afghans like Jan say they are losing faith in the United States and its coalition partners.

They point to rampant corruption, President Hamid Karzai's weak leadership and the behavior of U.S-backed warlords whose private armies operate with impunity throughout most of Afghanistan.

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[TahitiNut]

1. Reichwing Plantation Economics

Nazi Nirvana. :eyes:

[OldEuropean]

2. All according to the plan?

A year ago or so I read some article about the CIA, that it gets most of the money for black ops from controling the drug market worldwide.

A few months ago, there was some article saying that Afghanistan is back again as #1 opium producer after the USA kicked out the Taliban.

:tinfoilhat:
Now maybe that was the real goal of the "war" ?
:tinfoilhat:

[NNN0LHI]

3. Afghanistan is now supplying 3 fourths of the worlds heroin

We have the dead bodies to prove it in a very small community 70 miles south of Chicago.

Don

[arcane1]

4. now you're talkin'

a resource is a resource, after all

[Rollins]

5. Wow this is on mainstream media!

When I saw this headline I assumed it was Aljazeera or Abu Dhabi but look, it is MSNBC!! I love seeing this.
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