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US State Department employee accuses Karzai of drug involvement
Britain News.Net
Thursday 24th July, 2008
A former US narcotics official has accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai of obstructing efforts to tackle his country's drugs problem.
The New York Times has reported ex-US State Department employee, Thomas Schweich, claimed Mr Karzai had protected drug lords for political reasons.
In the article Mr Schweich claimed "narco-corruption went to the top of the Afghan government".
Mr Schweich said: "Karzai was playing us like a fiddle. The US would spend billions of dollars on infrastructure development; the US and its allies would fight the Taliban; Karzai's friends could get richer off the drug trade; he could blame the West for his problems; and in 2009 he would be elected to a new term."
President Karzai has denied the claims, saying that nobody has done as well as his government in the last seven years in the field of counter-narcotics.
He said his government had eradicated or greatly reduced drug production in more than half of the country's provinces.
Afghanistan's lucrative poppy crop supplies more than 90% of the world's illicit opium, the main ingredient of heroin, and is a valuable source of funds for the Taliban.
Mr Schweich backed earlier claims that Nato and US military commanders had been reluctant to get involved in fighting drugs, fearing that destroying farmers' crops would alienate tribesmen and increase support for the insurgents.
He also claimed the Afghan president was not prepared to move against drug lords in the country's south, where most opium and heroin is produced, because the area is his political powerbase.
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Su
07-25-08, 01:25 AM |
US State Department employee accuses Karzai of drug involvement
Whoever makes the complain that person is the drug dealer. Past experience in Laos. CIA is the drug dealer and Hmong took the blam for sale drug. American planes take off and landing at night and they shipped the drug out of the country. Don’t Afghan.
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Anonymous
07-25-08, 05:43 PM |
04 45pm
Tell us in your wisdom what else will they grow. Waki Baki perhaps.
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Anonymous
07-25-08, 03:16 PM |
Hey sOAP BoX.
And Mary had a little lamb. Carl. BTW Nothing illegal about war. You’ve been told that countless times and you’ve been shown why its not illegal countless times. And still you dont learn. Do you speak English M — — - f — — -. DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH.
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Sammy
07-25-08, 02:31 AM |
The criminals are benefitting with the opium, and oil trade
These illegal wars enacted by bush are for the control of oil and opium, to finance the criminals of this planet at the expense of all the honest people, who are suffering the consequences, while the criminal organizations are getting wealthier, and wealthier.
Sammy
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Anonymous
07-25-08, 04:45 PM |
Afghans should grow poppies all over the country and send the drugs to those conutries that have killled millions of innocent afghans...eye for an eye.
Many countires have had their hands stained with afghans' blood, and now this is a payback. If other countires stop killing afghans, then and only then they will stop growing opium.
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