U.S. Efforts Fail to Curtail Trade in Afghan Opium
NY Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — For years, American officials have struggled to curb Afghanistan’s opium industry, rewriting strategy every few seasons and pouring in more than $6 billion over the past decade to combat the poppies that help finance the insurgency and fuel corruption.
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An Army officer walking through a poppy field while on patrol in Afghanistan last month.
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POPPY FIELDS FOREVER A crop in Helmand Province in 2006. An unlikely coalition of corrupt Afghan officials, timorous Europeans, blinkered Pentagon officers and the Taliban has made poppy cultivation stubbornly resistant to eradication.
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Red Tide: Recent U.N. reports shattered the myth that poppies are grown by destitute farmers who have no other source of income.
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A United Nations report estimates that the country’s cultivation of poppy buds has risen 17 percent in the last year.
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