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2006-09-25 Afghanistan

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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small landowners, who are concerned about losing their capacity to grow opium poppies because of the eradication campaigns. The Taliban's offers to protect farmers from eradication campaigns will have boosted their popularity in major poppy-growing provinces like Helmand.
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War on drugs at cross purpose with war on terror...

Posted by Hupailing Ebbuns2352 2006-09-25 00:36|| 2006-09-25 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Earlier this month he called the president and told him he should be able to tell from the telephone number where Hekmatyar was speaking from. He challenged Karzai to arrest him

Pakistan and Quetta comes to mind!!!!

Posted by Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-09-25 05:39|| 2006-09-25 05:39|| Front Page Top

#3 This fusion was inevitable, particularly as the Coaltion pushes into the yet to be governed areas of Afganistan.

Recall how our special forces needed to ally the Northern Alliance and individual tribal leaders as we responded to 9/11. As the Coaltion continues to push, you would expect a reaction.

Posted by Captain America 2006-09-25 07:51|| 2006-09-25 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 The most colourful member is Hekmatyar - self-styled Lion of the Mountains, who was considered to be so effective as an anti-Soviet commander that the CIA and ISI allocated the highest percentage of all covert aid to him.

BS!

Other commanders like Ahmad Shah Masoud were far more effective. The ISI sent most funding his way because he was their pet, the most rabid of the bunch.

Posted by john 2006-09-25 14:39|| 2006-09-25 14:39|| Front Page Top

#5 The Taliban's offers to protect farmers from eradication campaigns will have boosted their popularity in major poppy-growing provinces like Helmand

Why don't we go get our hands on some agent orange or VX or something deadly that dissipates after the growing season ends and just start spraying random parts of these fields. No apologies. Just dead/screwed up "farmers" and workers and families. They're obviously on the wrong side of the fight anyway. Give them fair warning, pull the pin, and walk away. Of course, you would have to give them the option of subsidized wheat or something that can actually offer the chance to support a family in the future and not necessarily just when it's being subsidized. This stuff is being used to kill my family and the soldiers, and I want it gone. Now. Period.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-25 23:35|| 2006-09-25 23:35|| Front Page Top

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