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Afghanistan
Afghan official: 650 tons of drugs seized in past 12 months
2017-04-05
A little profit removed from the coffers of the Taliban and their friends.
[Ynet] An Afghan official says that in the past 12 months the country's counter-narcotics department has seized almost 650 tons of contraband drugs and alcohol.

Gen. Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, deputy interior minister for the counter-narcotics police, says the confiscated drugs include raw opium, heroin and hashish. He says that during that same time, the police tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
2,683 smugglers and traffickers, including 67 women.

He added that 20 coppers and 17 army soldiers have also been arrested for drug trafficking during the same time period. Ahmadi spoke on Tuesday as part of his annual reports on the fight against drug trafficking
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  And if he did, you'd believe?

Mexican police used to put on these big shows where they'd douse a pit full of narcotics with gasoline and light it on fire for the TV cameras. But somehow there was never any shortage of narcotics on the street.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-04-05 12:03  

#2  And if he did, you'd believe?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-05 05:05  

#1  He didn't say they were destroyed.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-04-05 00:05  

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