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2022-04-05 Afghanistan
Taliban BANS opium: Hardline rulers of Afghanistan say anyone caught growing poppy crop will be subjected to Sharia law
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
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#1 Fuckin' monkeys with guns. China is a fool for dealing with them.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-05 05:47||   2022-04-05 05:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone growing poppies and not paying off will be subject to sharia law.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 07:08||   2022-04-05 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Until they realize that the pay offs from farmers that grow poppy fields is a majority of their income and suddenly find a fatwa for growing.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-05 08:52||   2022-04-05 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ..for export.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-05 09:10||   2022-04-05 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe they think their opium selling days are over now and they shall happily live hereafter on the 'tranche'. There will always be some excuse for the US Congress islamists and islamophiles to send money. We always knew there's another Pakistain in the making.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-05 09:26||   2022-04-05 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Money on the table, Dron. The "tranches" go to the gummint {whatever that might be in the Stan) but a man who sells his own raw opium is a man in charge of his own life and wallet. At least until the door gets kicked in...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 09:30||   2022-04-05 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7  China is a fool for dealing with them.

I’ve been looking forward to China realizing it.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-05 09:43||   2022-04-05 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 China is asshore! When I lived in NYC, the assholes were the ones who bought the knock off stuff from the Somalian street vendors and played monty.

That's China.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 09:49||   2022-04-05 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 will be subjected to Sharia law To please the moon goddess of course.

Well I for one would not like to be camel raped.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-04-05 11:11||   2022-04-05 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 The CIA is going to be outraged.

We could have stopped opium production from restarting after the invasion. Remember, the Taliban banned it back in the 1990s, too. But it's just too profitable. Plus, the opioids that are destroying small town America come from Afghanistan, so there's that's another point in its favor.
Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-05 12:25||   2022-04-05 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes. There were stories about creating a bio blight to kill off poppies and coca when I was in college in the 70s. Never happened. But we did get COVID.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 12:29||   2022-04-05 12:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Just remembered the Chinese developed many high yield poppy seeds specifically for the Afghans to cultivate for them. This was in 2015-2017. Maybe it's about quality control now?
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-05 12:40||   2022-04-05 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years. If they had wanted to stop opium production from restarting, they would have done it.

But no. They allowed it to restart. Then they defended fields full of poppies from the Taliban, knowing full well those would be made into opioids and flood in to America.

"But the farmers needed that income" what a bullshit excuse. With all the money we spent on Afghanistan, we could have paid them all a subsidy not to grow crops. I hear USDA does the same thing and it works great.
Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-05 13:18||   2022-04-05 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.

Say no more guvner. Say. No. More.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 13:19||   2022-04-05 13:19|| Front Page Top

#15 But we did get COVID.

And herpes.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 16:07||   2022-04-05 16:07|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ Well, me, personally, no. But as a society...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 16:08||   2022-04-05 16:08|| Front Page Top

#17  The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.
Has Anyone been in "complete control" of Afghanistan at any time? ...Absolute bollocks
Posted by magpie 2022-04-05 21:21||   2022-04-05 21:21|| Front Page Top

#18 So the Taliban are looking to monopolize the opium trade?

The US military was in complete control of Afghanistan for 20 years.


Just what I was going to say. But America is the bete noir for the latest crowd of trolls. Not a sparrow falls but a CIA agent shot it down...
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-04-05 21:26||   2022-04-05 21:26|| Front Page Top

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