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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) New York Times Misleads on Taliban Role in Opium Trade Quicklink submitted by Sheila Samples (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| The total export value of opium and its derivatives (morphine and heroin) this year was estimated by the UNODC to be $3.4 billion. Therefore a logical corollary of the Times own account is that the majority of profits from the opium trade are going to non-insurgents. What is clear is that the Taliban, while profiting from the opium trade, do not control it. |
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End goverment corruption
by Pat Smith on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:40:47 AM