Opium Harvest at Record Level in Afghanistan

September 5th, 2006 at 20:45 Björn Hallberg

The opium production is surging in Afghanistan — but who is to blame? According to the UN stooges and their US masters, it’s the Taliban’s fault. Fighting a global superpower and at the same time cultivating a record 400,000 acres of opium poppy. Now that is remarkable. Even more so considering that the Taliban went to great lengths to destroy the crops after a ban on opium cultivation in 2000. So either someone was lying then or someone is lying now. Considering the coverup perpetrated by the US and the UN regarding the brutal, but resounding success in 2000-2001 and that it was America’s involvement, starting in the 1970s, which transformed Afghanistan from a local producer to a global source, it seems fairly certain that increasing the production is part of the plan. Certainly not an unfortunate side-effect or the result of absentmindedness. In fact, the increase didn’t happen in 2006 but rather spiked directly following the invasion and regime change in 2001 and the involvement of the refurbished Northern Alliance. As for the post-Mujahideen increase of opium in the late 1990s, which is now also attributed to the Taliban, it coincides with the fall of the Soviet Union and the surge of organized crime and drug running, often aligned with the armed insurgencies in the region.

One could even go so far as to say that the 2000 Taliban crackdown on drug production contributed more to the 2001 decision to decimate Afghanistan than did either human rights, Osama or the Taliban themselves. As it stands, drugs are back in fashion, Osama is conveniently enough nowhere to be found, human rights are on a slippery slope and the thugs, warlords aligned with the NATO storm troopers are no better than the fanatics whose power vacuum they filled.

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