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WHO PROTECTS THE POPPY (3#) -

# Inside an Afghan opium market: "Travelling on Afghanistan's main Jalalabad to Torkham road, you eventually arrive at Shaddle Bazaar, a market of around 30 shops in the eastern province of Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistan." Customers entering the shop... refer to it by its nickname as maal. By Bilal Sarwary, BBC.

# "Afghanistan has set a new record on poppy production this year, as it did last year, and the year before. Who protects the poppy, the growers and the transporters? The Taliban, getting a two-for-one hit: enormous amounts of money and the change to help the West rot out from within." From The Drug/Terror Connection.

# "Afghanistan poppy harvest jumps 18 per cent."

:: Sarwary: BBC ::
:: Drug/Terror Connection ::
:: Harvest Up 18% ::

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