Afghanistan Riddled with Drug Ties. Scott Baldauf and Faye Bowers.
by Baldauf, Scott; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 75Health. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Drug traffic -- Afghanistan | Opium poppy growers | Opium trade -- Afghanistan | Political corruption -- AfghanistanDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The case of an Afghan village police chief, named Inayatullah, is a small example of a much larger problem. Is Commander Inayatullah a courageous law-and-order crusader responsible for smashing the drug mafia in his hamlet? Or, is he an opium smuggler? Or, as his bosses say, is he both? It's a question that hangs over more and more public officials here. The post-Taliban boom in opium production means that drug money now permeates every stratum of Afghanistan's society--from the farmers cultivating poppies in the east to those in the highest levels of the central government of Kabul, according to senior Afghan and European officials working here." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses how "the involvement of local as well as high-level government officials in the opium trade is frustrating efforts to eradicate poppy fields" in Afghanistan.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Afghanistan Riddled with Drug Ties, May 13, 2005; pp. n.p..
"The case of an Afghan village police chief, named Inayatullah, is a small example of a much larger problem. Is Commander Inayatullah a courageous law-and-order crusader responsible for smashing the drug mafia in his hamlet? Or, is he an opium smuggler? Or, as his bosses say, is he both? It's a question that hangs over more and more public officials here. The post-Taliban boom in opium production means that drug money now permeates every stratum of Afghanistan's society--from the farmers cultivating poppies in the east to those in the highest levels of the central government of Kabul, according to senior Afghan and European officials working here." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses how "the involvement of local as well as high-level government officials in the opium trade is frustrating efforts to eradicate poppy fields" in Afghanistan.
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