Thursday, July 21, 2011

With the death of Pres. Karzai's brother, the C.I.A.da/Taliban Drug Trade is going down the drane with your tax dollars

The C.I.A.da Opium trade is falling apart in Afghanistan.  Does the assassination of Afghan's President Hamid Karzai brother's, Ahmad Wali Karzai have anything to do with the change in agenda?  This change of events also coincides with the reported death of Al-Qaeda, a CIA created and operated terrorist organization.!?!

The Associated Press: Report: Afghans hampering US banking program
Efforts to track and protect U.S. tax dollars and other international aid are entangled in a web of Afghan banking scandals that have been fast developing in recent weeks:

—The former head of the central bank, Abdul Qadir Fitrat, fled late last month to the U.S. amid allegations of failing to act on warnings about widespread corruption at the nation's largest private lender, Kabul Bank. He said he left after receiving death threats and that he was being made a scapegoat while the government refused to charge politically connected individuals.
Drug trade menaces Afghanistan despite progress: U.S. | Reuters
In Afghanistan, which supplies about 77 percent of the world's opium, nationwide opium poppy cultivation fell by one-third to 304,000 acres in 2009 from a peak level of 477,000 acres in 2007, Nichols told the panel.

Poppy cultivation did not increase in 2010 despite the highest opium prices since 2004, and the number of poppy-free provinces has steadily increased to 20 in 2009-2010 from 6 in 2006, added Nichols.
Huge poppy seed cache confiscated in Afghanistan - CNN.com
The opium poppy can be used to make heroin and other drugs, and is considered a staple of insurgent funding.

Afghanistan is considered the world's leading cultivator of opium poppy, ahead of Myanmar, according to a 2011 United Nations report.

The country accounts for 63% of the world's total areas under opium poppy cultivation, despite a smaller harvest last year due to an unspecified disease in opium plants.
UN wants 'flood of drugs' in Afghanistan to devalue opium | World news | guardian.co.uk
United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a "flood of drugs" in the country intended to destroy the value of opium and force poppy farmers to switch to legal crops such as wheat.

After the failure to destroy fields of the scarlet flowers in Afghanistan's volatile south, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says the answer is to stop the drugs from leaving the country in the first place.
Opium fields guarded by US troops in Afghanistan

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