Pubdate: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 Source: Globe and Mail (Canada) Copyright: 2006, The Globe and Mail Company Contact: http://www.globeandmail.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/areas/afghanistan (Afghanistan) Author: Wendy Stueck Canada in Brief AFGHAN DRUG TRADE HURTS STABILITY, GENERAL SAYS VANCOUVER -- Corruption and drug-trafficking stemming from Afghanistan's poppy crops pose the biggest threat to coalition efforts to nurture a stable government in the country, U.S. Lieutenant-General Karl Eikenberry said yesterday. Speaking via teleconference from the U.S. embassy in Geneva to the Asia Pacific Summit in Vancouver, Lt.-Gen. Eikenberry -- commanding general with combined forces command in Afghanistan -- said the poppy- growing problem is big enough to warrant a strategy aimed at providing an alternative economy, not just alternative livlihoods for poppy farmers. - --- MAP posted-by: Jackl