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Afghanistan "destroys country's biggest drugs bazaar" |
2005-05-31 |
![]() "Two-and-a-half tonnes of poppy, 250 kilograms of heroin and 3.5 tonnes of chemicals were seized and were destroyed in the operation," General Mohammed Daud, the Afghan deputy interior minister, told a press conference on Tuesday. However, no one was arrested or killed in the operation in Bahram Shah, which is around 100 metres (yards) from the rugged, poorly defined Afghan-Pakistani border. "When the operation started most of the smugglers and traffickers managed to escape across the Pakistani border," Daud said as he displayed a video clip of the operation showing the Afghan Special Narcotics Force troops approaching and burning the drugs. The operation follows President Hamid Karzai's recent visit to Washington, where he predicted that opium cultivation would drop by 30 percent in 2005 after leaked US documents accused him of being too soft in the war on drugs. |
Posted by:Steve |
#1 And they did it their very own selves. This is a good first step. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-31 13:06 |