Pubdate: Fri, 27 Oct 2006
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2006, The Globe and Mail Company
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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.
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