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Newshawk: Kirk
Pubdate: Sun, 26 Aug 2007
Source: Courier-Journal, The (Louisville, KY)
Copyright: 2007 The Washington Post Company
Contact:
Website: http://www.courier-journal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/97
Note: Only publishes local LTEs
Author: Misha Glenny, Special to The Washington Post
Note: Misha Glenny is a former BBC correspondent and the author of
"McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld," to be published next year.
THE LOST WAR ON DRUGS
Failed Drug Fight Is Undermining West's Security
Poppies were the first thing that British army Capt. Leo Docherty
noticed when he arrived in Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province in
April 2006. "They were growing right outside the gate of our Forward
Operating Base," he told me. Within two weeks of his deployment to the
remote town of Sangin, he realized that "poppy is the economic
mainstay and everyone is involved right up to the higher echelons of
the local government."
Poppy, of course, is the plant from which opium -- and heroin -- are
derived.
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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