War on Drugs in Afghanistan Could Take 20 Years To Win
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A U.N. report suggested that some officials in the country have been so corrupted that the opium trade would not be stamped out for a generation
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WASHINGTON With the presidential election in Afghanistan less than a week away, the international community should take a hard look at where we have come since a US-$ led coalition began a military campaign to rid that country of the Taliban and its
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai has declared a holy war on the drugs trade gripping his war-shattered country, which produces nearly nine-tenths of the world&#39;s opium.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium The UN says heroin is big business in Afghanistan, and is calling on the United States and NATO to wage war on drug traffickers.
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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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Quick action is needed to fight Afghanistan's growing drug addiction problem to head off an HIV/AIDS crisis in the shattered country, leading health agencies said on Thursday.
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Afghanistan used to be content merely to supply most of the world's heroin. Now a growing number of Afghans are using the drug as well
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Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a U.N. report Thursday that called on U.S. and NATO-led forces get more involved in fighting drug traffickers.
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Bumper cannabis crops  -  and tighter border controls  -  are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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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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The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other anti terrorist efforts could cost the country $2.4 trillion over the next ten years, according to a report Wednesday.
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Colombia, locked in a 40-year war fueled by the drug trade, has made gains in restoring order and economic growth but needs more international help to secure
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BALKH, Afghanistan  - As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy -- they planted marijuana instead.
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Afghanistan's opium trade has revived and  is thriving under the country's U.S.-backed leaders and experts  say that is not likely to change any time soon no matter who  wins next month's first direct presidential election.
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Bumper cannabis crops -- and tighter border controls -- are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly elected president, Hamid Karzai, has warned that the country must face down radical extremists and defeat the drug trade.