U.S. to unveil new anti-drug strategy for Afghanistan

[babylonsister]

You can't make this stuff up.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0838601520070808

U.S. to unveil new anti-drug strategy for Afghanistan
Wed Aug 8, 2007 6:50PM EDT

By Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans on Thursday to unveil a strategy to fight Afghanistan's drug trade by giving provincial governors more money to eradicate poppy crops and pursue economic development, U.S. officials said.

The effort also aims to better coordinate counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency work in Afghanistan, which in the past 18 months has seen its bloodiest fighting since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban movement in 2001.

U.S. officials said the new strategy for Afghanistan, which is the source of about 90 percent of the world's opium, would include a public education campaign against growing opium poppies, the key ingredient for heroin.

A State Department official, who spoke on condition that he not be named because the strategy is not yet public, said the new approach seeks to grapple with the fact that the insurgency and the drug trade are increasingly intertwined.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0838601520070808

[porphyrian]

1. Yeah, our anti-drug policies have been so effective elsewhere...

:eyes:

[Bobbieo]

2. Wish they would do that for meth producers in this country and Mexico.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

[burythehatchet]

3. Headline on August 8 2008

Afghan Poppy Production reaches record levels.

[babylonsister]

4. Yep. That was a recent headline for 07 IIRC. nt

[rodeodance]

5. same thing they are doing in Iraq----handing out $$.

[TomInTib]

6. Now that they're refining heroin, good fucking luck.

It's all over but the nodding.

[izzie]

7. Good deal we do it so well.

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