Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister — We cover this to excess on No Agenda and everyone thinks we are joking.
The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday. He went on to say that NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control.Afghanistan is the world’s biggest supplier of opium. Drug production in the Central Asian country has increased dramatically since the US-led invasion eight years ago.
Found by Bunni Serrano.
And again, one more time.
When one country invade another, their two fates are tied.
This has been true since ancient times.
#3. Well said. The mixing of blood, analogy. You are a poet, and a philosopher, sir.
Hi
Just wanted to point out that
IRNA that reported this is owned by Iran government, and it always publishes crazy stories about US. and they were the ones that photoshoped their missiles to look like they have more missile..
so it is like fox news…
you need a better source for that..
“IRNA, as a state-controlled organization, is often viewed as a political instrument rather than a fair and balanced news source. The state has been known to censor Iranians access to information by publishing misinformation, jailing journalists, and shutting down news outlets.[2][3] Recently the IRNA played a critical role in the 2009 Iranian presidential election, calling the election in favor of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad despite allegations of voting fraud later confirmed by the Guardian Council.”
from : Wikipedia
Oh, well. Now that you’ve cited a truly trustworthy source, I guess we’ll all have to believe you. Canit be long before we see this reported in the Onion?
Sheesh, JCD. Could it be that IRNA’s source was No Agenda?
Is that Oliver North in the picture? It may explain the drug connection.
# 6 Animby
“In 1995, the former CIA director of the Afghan operation, Charles Cogan, admitted the CIA had indeed sacrificed the drug war to fight the Cold War. `Our main mission was to do as much damage as possible to the Soviets. We didn’t really have the resources or the time to devote to an investigation of the drug trade,’… `I don’t think that we need to apologize for this. Every situation has its fallout…. There was fallout in terms of drugs, yes. But the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
Former U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Thomas Schweich, in a New York Times article dated July 27, 2007, asserts that opium production is protected by the government of Hamid Karzai as well as by the Taliban, as all parties to political conflict in Afghanistan as well as criminals benefit from opium production, and, in Schweich’s opinion, the U.S. military turns a blind eye to opium production as not being central to its anti-terrorism mission.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usinfo/USINFO/Products/Webchats/uncnd_01_mar_2007.html
This was common in Southeast Asia during Vietnam.
Any nation that turns a blind eye to the drug trade merely because the end justifies the means is as guilty as running it themselves. It is hypocrisy.
Cursor_
Heroin is the only reason we are in Afghanistan. Nobody gives a damn about finding Bin Laden, he was just a hired hand. Our CIA will always control the heroin capitals no matter where they are. It is a very old story and runs right through the middle of the Vietnam war too.
Isn’t the Poppy the CIA’s favorite CASH CROP ??? With transport into the USA on Air America, after they drop their weapons shipments overseas !! Keeps the planes full, you know !!!
# 8 Cursor_ said, “In 1995, the former CIA director of the Afghan operation, Charles Cogan, admitted…”
Cursor, dear friend, time to wake up. The 1990’s are long gone and the Soviets have abandoned their war in Afghanistan. The CIA’s actions during those times are a far cry from Curry’s assertions that the US military (who AC claims to support immediately before he goes on to trash them) are actively encouraging, patrolling, protecting and selling the raw opium.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
“…opium production is protected by the government of Hamid Karzai as well as by the Taliban … the U.S. military turns a blind eye”
Again, last time I checked, Karzai and the Taliban are not members of the US military. I agree the US “turns a blind eye.” Ignoring a problem is not the same as encouraging it. I have lived in Afghanistan while the Taliban was in power, during the war and after the Taliban was removed. I have walked in the poppy fields of northern Afgh and had the owner show me how the harvesting of the opium-rich sap is done. I have tried to talk these farmers into abandoning their lucrative poppies by offering them free wheat seed from Uncle Sam. I’ve seen fields sprayed with herbicides by US mil helicopters.
I don’t mean to say that the CIA isn’t using some of the poppy fields to fund their own activities but it would surprise me. I am saying from my seven years of personal experience, I’ve never seen a US military operation to protect or encourage drug production in Afghanistan. To accuse soldiers of participating without solid proof is slander of the worst kind.