- Europe is about to be inundated by a tidal wave of cheap
heroin from Afghanistan, which will reach the cities of the Old Continent
via Turkey and Albania.
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- Since the Taliban regime was ousted and the US-backed
regime of Hamid Karzai was installed in Kabul, opium production has risen
by one thousand, five hundred tonnes. In one year.
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- Opium poppy cultivation has increased an estimated 1,400
times in the Afghanistan of Hamid Karzai, according to figures presented
at the Second European Conference on Drugs Trafficking, on Thursday, in
Paris, by Drugscope, the British Drugs Observatory, whose director, Roger
Howard, declared that the news is "extremely worrying".
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- In October 2001, the UN Drug Control Programme released
figures which indicated that in areas controlled by the Northern Alliance,
opium production was rising, after the Taliban had practically eliminated
the crop, considering it "anti-Islamic".
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- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/09/27/37393.html
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