Afghan Opium production skyrockets 4,400% under U.S. occupation

 

"Either Afghanistan destroys opium 

or opium will destroy Afghanistan"

- Afghan President Hamid Karzai -

appointed by Bush Administration - brother of key Afghan drug dealer Wali Karzai

- appointed convicted heroin dealer Izzatullah Wasifi to head anticorruption committee

-accused of protecting drug smugglers

 Opium & Afghanistan: reassessing U.S. CounterNarcotics Strategy (PDF)

 “U.S. Army planes leave Afghanistan 

carrying coffins empty of bodies, but filled with drugs.”

- Nushin Arbabzadah *the Guardian*

 "This is all times highest drug production rate from Afghanistan (after US invasion) than it was in the time of Taliban"

-opium production made possible by US invasion

“In Afghanistan, a conservative estimate suggests that Taliban insurgents generated some US$125 million per year in profits from the local opiate trade alone in the past several years. In Pakistan, Taliban allies such as al-Qaida and other like-minded groups have bases along the main heroin/opium trafficking routes and are well located to benefit from trafficking.”
- UNO report *page 38*

 

- UNODC World Drug Report 2010 (PDF)

Since 2001 the opium cultivation increased over 4,400%. 

Under the US/NATO, Afghanistan became world largest opium producer, 

which produces 93% of world opium.

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