Karzai says world not doing enough on Afghan drugs

[Eugene]

Karzai says world not doing enough on Afghan drugs

By Yousuf Azmiy
Reuters
Tuesday, August 22, 2006; 6:33 AM

KABUL (Reuters) - Drugs pose a far greater threat to Afghanistan
than terrorism but the international community is not doing enough
to tackle the scourge, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday.

Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the raw material
for heroin, and production is expected to rise to record levels this
year as drug barons and Taliban insurgents cash in on the harvest.

"Once, we thought terrorism was Afghanistan's biggest enemy," Karzai
told a counter-narcotics conference in the Afghan capital.

"Poppy, its cultivation and drugs are Afghanistan's major enemy," he said.

The narcotics trade accounts for about a third of Afghanistan's economy
-- and about 87 percent of the world's illegal heroin -- and the United
Nations fears the country could become a narco-state.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200257.html

[democracyindanger]

1. I already go to work and spend my weekends

on Afghan drugs. What more does he want?

[msongs]

2. enuff? bush & the US taxpayer gave them their BEST year ever thanks to our

successful invasion and failed occupation. instead of consolidating the position in afghanistan donky boy the chimp went to iraq with his war based on lies, now the drug business in afghanistan is better than ever thanks to bush and cheney.

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[teryang]

3. Could become a narco state?

Karzai is irrelevant.