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Moustafa Mohamed Hussein
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From Afghanistan to Iraq
December 22, 2004 - 07:19 AM
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http://www.ahram.org.eg/archive/Index.asp?CurFN=writ4.htm&DID=8343
This is an Arabic article written by Mohamed El-Sammack, A writer from Lebanon and wrote it to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
It says that Afghanistan upon Taliban's rule was producing 850 tons of heroin while now upon US invasion, it produces 3600 tons which represents 75% of the world's production.
Also it says that, the prime minister of England stated in 1 October 2001 that 90% of heroin in Britain is from Afghanistan and he went to the side of the war on Afghanistan but here we are after 3 years of Taliban's fall down and the opium planting has increased and heroin production has increased also.
Also, The current president Hammed Karadai tried to replace the existing areas planted with opium, with wheat but of course he failed because they wanted to pay 215 US$ for each hectare of wheat while drug dealers pay 125,000 US$ for one hectare of opium.
Hammed "who caries an American Nationality" had a deal to get 27 billion dollars to help him to rebuild Afghanistan after the US invasion, but he got nothing because US is now busy in Iraq war.
"What we are concerned about are the complexities that come from the involvement of organised crime activities dealing with heroin," said Alexander Schmidt, crime prevention expert at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. "It is a much more profitable product and more difficult to deal with." The US has so far failed to develop a plan for becoming involved in the crackdown on the drug market in Afghanistan
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
December 24, 2004 - 09:24 AM
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So killing people by drugs seems to be okay as far as America is approving the action, and as far as having the president of another country an American. What kind of nonsense is that.BUT in the meantime Bush is still after "The Axis of Evil", my x-mas wish for Bush is to look to his bedroom mirror to solve the riddle of "Axis of Evil".
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
December 24, 2004 - 11:03 AM
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Hey Anga, Bush is just a puppet and he is all what we see from the front screen, frankly its the policy makers behind the screen responsible for atrocities.
Its all about policy reforms, with out a honest global politics, the peace is far our access.
Anyway, WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTAS DEAR ANGA!!! 
cheers,
Udara
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
July 26, 2005 - 06:11 AM
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the god father again this means that its not bush it the policy that he is repersenting he just cant swim against the fllow and it known in the int. law that the wining state ve the right to put its rules and here we r they r trying to look like an angels by putting no rules but they still take the price fair is fair
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
July 26, 2005 - 06:39 AM
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- The God Father again!!!! What is in the God Father? Well, I may say that the God Father had a set of rules, while you are saying that Bush does not.
- You mean Bush "cannot swim against the flow". Well, it seems to be that He- with the policy he represents and applies- is the "FLOW" itself.
- "trying to look like an angels by putting no rules" ... Is it be an angel= having no rules!!!!!! That is really strange.
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
July 31, 2005 - 09:27 AM
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Originally posted by Haseeb
Just some facts :
1 : Hamid Karzai does not hold " US nationality." It is very easy to go synical while you write criticle stuff and I think this writer has just done so. In order to make his article more supportive of his personal views he has stated facts that are no way true. The fact is - Hamid Karzai has never had US citizenship nor has he lived in the US for more than a few months. But it is true that he is close to the US and I think a sound mind undrestands it why.
2: There is a lot more behind the boom in opium growing in Afghanistan than "US allowing it to happen." The so called "bad guys" generate most of their income from the trade and it is with out any doubt that they are the biggest backers of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. The 25 year war has destroyed all the state institutions that can deal with the "bad guys" in an effective manner - so it will take for government to act and change things. TO run a country you need to think about alot more than just what the Taliban used to think about - they of course controlled the growing of poppy to a certain extent but never replaced the corp with anything else for the farmers , thus , they lacked public support. THe taliban did not care about public support cause they used to rule by force. THis government needs the public behind it cause it is an aspiring democracy.
3: In a country in transition from conflict to peace - it always requires time to deal with issues. The opium cultivation in Afghanistan is not something that can be dealt with in an over night - no matter how strong the international community tries to combat this shame. This year we are experiencing a decrease in the amount of opium grown in Afghanistan and a number of opium purifying labs have also been destroyed. Though it is a fact that not much of the opium that is grown in Afghanistan gets turned in to Heroin inside Afghanistan - we simply and luckyly don't have the facilities for that purpose.
Thanks always for your insightful feeds in the discussions; all i have to say here is that if "honesty" existed in the global politics, the fate of Iraq and Afghanistan both would had been very different.
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
August 4, 2005 - 12:31 PM
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Of course the Talibans weren't that kind of good guys, but that doesn't put the US in the innocents' corner.
Muhammad Hassanein Heikal, a prestigious Egyptian political thinker had some interesting insights about the long-term consequences of the US preence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A brief look to the map of Asia will show that oil is abundant in the Arabian Gulf and around the Caspian Sea. The potentially future powers: Russia and China, as time goes on, will have to look for oil to correspond to their future ambitions. What the US has basically done is to place troops encircling the Caspian Sea and the Arabian Gulf, in order to cut the way in front of Russia and China to reach these strategic oil-rich zones.
US troops exist now in Afghanistan, KSA, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kuwait, and Iraq...this means that Iran, is surrounded by US forces from the east, west, north and south...
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
August 9, 2005 - 11:46 AM
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<sarcasm>Since when do we let a little thing like drugs get in the way of freedom?</sarcasm>
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Re: From Afghanistan to Iraq
August 18, 2005 - 11:57 AM
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guys - isn't the simple answer that Afghanistan is the responsibility of the Azfghanis - we have more police in Manhattan than troops in Afghanistan - how are we supposed to patrol it - the whole point is that we are not the rulers of that country - the Afghanis are.
I suppose the US could go about quashing drug trafficing like the Taliban did - cut a few heads and arms off - that is how the Taliban kept the Opium growers in line - I am sure they got their point across.
But frankly I don't think America should be doing anything in that country these days besides hunting Al Qaeda and making sure the Taliban don't come back - aside rom that - its the job of the Afghani government to patrol their own drug issue.
I certainly don't think an of these right wing christians in charge in Washington are jumping up and down about the increased opium crop.
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