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Originally posted by CatHerder
Regarding the heroin question somebody else had: prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, opium was the number one export (which heroin is made from). More income came from opium than from all other export items including oil. After the invasion, Afghanistan remains the worlds largest exporter of opium, and it still outpaces all other exports by 5 or more times. ( source1, source2, source3, source4 )
Originally posted by Hunting Veritas
Why don't the occupying forces just bomb or pollute the poppy fields?
Then a big chunk of Terrorist funding are gone.
So simple isn't it.
~Peace ~
Originally posted by deltaboy
blow it up, and the Afghans who depend on a source of income to continue to live in a harsh place, will grow another crop of opium. simple isnt it? for the Afghans.
Opium cultivation grew to 131,000 hectares (324,000 acres) from 80,000 hectares in 2003, it said. Opium, which is used to make heroin, saw its export value rise 22 percent from a year earlier. Profit for Afghan drug traffickers jumped 69 percent to $2.2 billion.
Originally posted by Hunting Veritas
Why don't they grow hemp.
Food,
Oil,
Clothing,
Plastics,
Fibre,
fuel
The list continues...........
But then again its not the normal average afghanistan person who reaps the profits its the Terrorist cells that use the money to buy bomb making material who then bomb innocents.
Originally posted by keybored
Do we now become suspicious of all imports? Coffee would make the ideal target... I guess there are any number of imported goods that could be weaponized...
Well that would have crippled Wall Street and decimated boardrooms across the world, not to mention the music industry
Funny that I would will not be surprise if the "causalties" would have been in the goverment ranks
Hunting Veritas
Soooooo other than Fox news, who else reported this story?
Why don't they grow hemp.
blow it up, and the Afghans who depend on a source of income to continue to live in a harsh place, will grow another crop of opium. simple isnt it? for the Afghans
Originally posted by CatHerder
Regarding the heroin question somebody else had: prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, opium was the number one export (which heroin is made from). More income came from opium than from all other export items including oil. After the invasion, Afghanistan remains the worlds largest exporter of opium, and it still outpaces all other exports by 5 or more times. ( source1, source2, source3, source4 )
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
now if the US wants to spray harmful chemicals on the coc aine crops in columbia, and the product kills americans, then it was those "terrorists" that did it...
Originally posted by phoenixhasrisin
First off as someone else mentioned Heroine production is on the rise in Afghanistan since we invaded, one little ignored fact is that in the same time period Heroin has replaced coc aines popularity (as far as consumption rates, teen use, and overdoses go)
Originally posted by Shadowflux
Perhaps this entire story is a fabrication and the only one seeking to scare the crap out of addicts is the US government
Originally posted by Shadowflux
Intriguing, I'd be interested to see some supporting evidence and whether or not the rise began after we bagan to occupy Afghanistan. Though if I had to wager a guess I'd say it started after
Originally posted by WestPoint23
I am of too minds, one this would be really hordes as it would kill a lot of Americans, two this would clean up the crack heads for us.
Originally posted by keybored
Do we now become suspicious of all imports? Coffee would make the ideal target... I guess there are any number of imported goods that could be weaponized...
Originally posted by CatHerder
I think some of you miss the point here.
Just like many westerners think all the islamic terrorists are uneducated, camel riding, tent dwelling, Kuran waving barbarians. Most of those terrorists think Americans are fat, godless, drug addicts without morals. It goes both ways... A plot to poisen the drug supply, that obviously all Americans are using, seems to be a fairly straight forward idea from Bin Laden. As he found out, the drug lords wouldn't be very receptive to the idea...
Regarding the heroin question somebody else had: prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, opium was the number one export (which heroin is made from). More income came from opium than from all other export items including oil. After the invasion, Afghanistan remains the worlds largest exporter of opium, and it still outpaces all other exports by 5 or more times. ( source1, source2, source3, source4 )