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Did Karzai play US 'like a fiddle' to enrich heroin trade?

rawstory.com — Ultimately, some basic US efforts to encourage Afghan farmers to move away from opium only made it easier for them to produce and sell. But Afghanistan's booming opium production was not so much due to the US government's unwitting facilitation of the trade, or its bungling efforts to stomp it out, as the trechary of the country's leader.

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  • drmobutu, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Opium and heroin trafficking are used by many nation's intelligence services, to gather intelligence, fund insurgents, raise money for covert projects, bribe politicians, build alliances with organized crime, purchase weapons, decimate problematic ethnic groups, etc.,


  • ChristPissed, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2The Skull & Bones house at Yale was built from the profits of the heroin trade.
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