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2007-09-02 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2007-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 My theory, and I would retract in face of hard evidence, that the opposition is mostly from the opium industry, and that terror fodder are brainwashed in the Madrasa controlled phony refugee camps in Pakistan. In his 1999 book, "The Taliban Phenomenon: 1994-1997" Kamal Matinuddin disclosed that the Taliban took 15% of earnings from the opium trade. Under Karzai, Afghanistan has now become, for the first time in its history, a heroin producer country. And most of that is done in Helmond District. I first read of that in the Euro press, and doubted it. However, NATO night patrol pilots report that the heroin factories are visible at night, and they dot Helmond, the area where Karzai is most critical of NATO bombing. The Dems are going to jump on the fact that opium eradication - a major mission target - is not proceeding in Pashto areas. Hearts and minds of drug producers are for bullets.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-02 01:39|| 2007-09-02 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I've written elsewhere today that we may intentionally be trying to lure Pakistan's troublemakers out of Pakistan into Afghanistan to kill, precisely to stabilize Pakistan. We want them to keep fighting, because the more they are weakened, the more the central government of Pakistan can control their entire country.

If they were to quit the fight, then Pakistan would continue to be a far more dangerous place to the rest of the world, than if it were controlled by its government.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-02 13:55|| 2007-09-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

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