Afghan Opium Poppy Cultivation At All Time High

CIA mission accomplished: Afghan Opium Poppy Cultivation at All-Time High 12 Nov 2014 Poppy production is the leading export among the mind boggling agents produced in the war torn nation..."Helmand province, registering a 3% increase in cultivation, remained Afghanistan's leading crop grower (taking 46% of the national total)". In fact, the production trend from Helmand, where British troops were first deployed in 2006 and which they left last month, has been steadily up. One could conclude the poppy eradication programme the British were supposed to lead at the request of then Prime Minister Tony Blair has been a failure...According to UN sources, at least 70% of drug profits wound up in the pockets of government figures who were the NATO allies.

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