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| More on the Russian return to Afghanistan |
| 2010-11-01 |
The Russians care more about the drug gangs than they do the Taliban. While the Russians have some problems with Islamic terrorism, heroin addiction does a lot more damage. There are two million heroin and opium addicts in Russia, and about a quarter of the 40 million such addicts worldwide are in Afghanistan and surrounding countries. While many Afghan government officials are on the drug gang payrolls, this is much less the case with neighboring nations. All these countries are very anxious to shut down the heroin production in Afghanistan, or at least keep the stuff from being smuggled into their countries. |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |