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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

UN: "Afghanistan opium production set to rise 61 percent"

dont forget, america has 400 military bases in afghanistan..........connect the dots..........from alarabiya........

"Opium production in Afghanistan is set to rise by nearly two-thirds this year, with farmers’ revenues set to soar compared to last year’s harvest blighted by disease, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Ten years after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to drive the Taliban from power, Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the world’s illegal opium, funding much of the militia’s insurgency despite an expensive Western eradication program"............READ MORE

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