Taliban Push Poppy Production to a Record Again
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A record opium crop in Afghanistan is likely to renewed debate about the United Statesâ troubled $600 million counternarcotics program there.
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A collection of pre-Islamic wooden idols chopped up by the Taliban in 2001 in their drive for a pure Muslim state is back on display in Afghanistan after painstaking repair in a project financed by the Austrian government.
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KABUL, 19 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has increased by two-thirds, reaching an unprecedented 131,000 hectares, a new survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed on Thursday.
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VIENNA -- Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a UN report said today .
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Opium poppy cultivation shot up a whopping 61 percent in Afghanistan this year in a setback for US and NATO efforts to clamp down on the country's illegal drug industry, according to new figures released by the White House.
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Although opium production is up in Afghanistan, cocaine consumption is rising in Europe and trafficking is growing in Africa, drug abuse is being brought under control.
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The United States estimated on Thursday that Afghanistan's opium production hit a record high last year and said the narcotics trade is undermining democracy and security in the Southwest Asian U.S. ally.
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The international community is making significant strides toward ridding northern Afghanistan of opium, a U.S. counter-narcotics official said Friday, despite setbacks in the Taliban-controlled south and forecasts of another record year of poppy cultivation.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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The Taliban has seen a resurgence in Afghanistan due in part to proceeds from the nation's drug trade. Afghanistan produces about 93 percent of the world's illicit opium, despite U.S. efforts to eradicate it. "You can try to kill us but we will still grow poppy," one farmer told CNN.
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By ANDY SMITH  The Taliban are making a comeback in Afghanistan. Chevron discovered a massive oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. And -- by the way -- Katie Couric anchored the news.
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A UN survey released this week showed Afghanistan this year supplied 87 percent of the world&#39;s opium - the raw material for heroin - following record-high cultivation that has skyrocketed since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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The U.S.-backed strategy to fight Afghanistan's massive drug trade has been unsuccessful in stemming opium cultivation, which is expected to hit record levels this year, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.
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Despite 7,000 UK troops, Taliban-backed production up 48%.
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Poppy cultivation and opium production will continue to increase in Afghanistan, expanding the dangerous influence of drug lords at all levels of the government of President
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Opium cultivation in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report that warns the countryâs economy could be forced to rely on poppy growing largely wiped out under the hardline Taliban militia.
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Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a UN survey to be released tomorrow.