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| Russia blasts US over Afghan drug scheme |
| 2010-03-29 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Russia accuses the United States of conspiring with Afghanistan's drug producers by refusing to eradicate opium plantations in the country. US marines, stationed in the opium-growing Helmand province since February, told the villagers that they do not intend to cut the production, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday. "We believe such statements are contrary to the decisions taken on Afghan narco-problems within the UN and other international forums," the ministry added in a statement released by the Russian Embassy in Kabul. If NATO troops would not carry out eradication themselves, they should provide force protection for Afghans to do it, it said. Or maybe the Russians could come in and do it. What could go wrong? Not eradicating poppy plantations "ignores the fact that thousands of people die from heroin ... including in Afghanistan," the statement added. This is the second time in a week that Moscow slams the West over its drug policy. Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's opium. Moscow says narcotics from neighboring Afghanistan kill 30,000 Russians every year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Just because one is paranoid...you know the rest. |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2010-03-29 12:59 |
| #6 Well, somebody's making money on all that heroin. It just makes me wonder if the Taliban has the market cornered or if there are other players. Hmmmm. Mad Mullahs? Paks? Soddies? CIA? KGB? They're all there in the same neighborhood. And how much money is it? If you think like a cop and suspect everybody it raises all kinds of questions. Or maybe I'm just paranoid. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-03-29 12:42 |
| #5 It's your border, Russia. You fix it there. We are supposed to be doing light fighting in Afghanistan. Not policing the state. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-03-29 06:37 |
| #4 I wonder how a Russian Afghan war wherein Russians are not trying to turn Afghanistan into a satellite but just eradicate poppy growing would look like? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-29 04:35 |
| #3 Moscow says narcotics from neighboring Afghanistan kill 30,000 Russians every year. Heroin is a huge problem in Russia. Proportionally somewhere between 10 and 100 times bigger than in Europe and the USA. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-03-29 03:26 |
| #2 Moscow says narcotics from neighboring Afghanistan kill 30,000 Russians every year. Heroin is a huge problem in Russia. Proportionally somewhere between 10 and 100 times bigger than in Europe and the USA. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-03-29 03:26 |
| #1 See, comrades? Pootie cares about you! As long as he doesn't have to commit anything that may or may not exist, anyway. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-03-29 00:37 |