Posted on 05/19/2010 1:15:42 AM PDT by Brugmansian
LASHKAR GAH -- Aziz Ahmad is a deeply worried man. With two wives and seven children at home, the 30-year-old farmer depends entirely on his opium-poppy crop to make a living.
This year, it's proving to be an increasingly difficult task. First, falling water tables stunted his crop. Then a mysterious blight emerged to destroy most of what remained.
In a normal growing season, Ahmad's 4-hectare plot in the Washer district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province yields 100 kilograms of opium -- enough to cover his debts and ensure his family's survival over the winter.
This year he managed to bring in a mere 25 kilograms . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
Feb 16, 2001- UN drug control officers said The Taliban religious mafia has nearly wiped out Opium production in Afghanistan — once the world’s greatest producer— since banning poppy cultivation last summer.
They started growing poppies when the Taliban were forced out.
This can't be attributable to the ignorant horticultural practices of Afghanistan's opium farmers, it simply can't. It must be the fault of a super secret conspiracy involving an even more secret cabal of former Haliburton officers.
Obama will offer them citizenship.
a “mysterious blight” indeed
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This year, it’s proving to be an increasingly difficult task.
First, falling water tables stunted his crop. Then a mysterious blight
emerged to destroy most of what remained.
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Shades of the Irish potatoe blight.
I probably shouldn’t be suprised (due to the highly addictive
quality of opiates), but some parts of the Islamosphere do have drug problems.
I can’t remember which of the “-stans” of the former USSR, but I did
see a documentary that featured interviews with some Muslims that
were addicted to opiate products.
Oh, well... Life sucks, Aziz. Your perverted “religion” prohibits it anyway, so just chalk it up to the will of “allah.”
Deal with the Devil I suppose
CIA germ warfare?
Which, IMO, is the basis of islam (yes, small "i").
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