Are We Never Suprised
March 11, 2007 at 11:39 pm | Posted in Afghan Opium, Afghanistan, Drug Trade, Drug Wars, Heroin, Opium, Opium Feilds, Poppy Bush, War on Drugs | Leave a comment“Afghan anti-corruption chief a convicted U.S. felon”
KABUL: When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the seller was introduced only as “Mr. E.” In a room at Caesars Palace hotel, Mr. E exchanged a pound- and-a-half bag of heroin for $65,000 in cash — unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective.
The sting landed him in a Nevada state prison for nearly four years.
Twenty years later and Mr. E, whose real name is Izzatullah Wasifi, has a new job. He is the Afghan government’s anti-corruption chief.
Wasifi leads a staff of 84 people charged with rooting out the endemic graft that is fueled in part by the country’s position as the world’s largest producer of opium poppy, the raw ingredient of heroin.
Aides to President Hamid Karzai will not say if he knew about the drug conviction when Wasifi was appointed two months ago as director of the General Independent Administration of Anti- Corruption and Bribery.
Lets Look Back For A Second:
- 1995 Unocal, seeks to build a pipeline across Afghanistan.
- 1997 Unocal invites Taliban reps to Texas and meetings with Clinton Admin.
- 1998 Unocal VP addressed US House stating the Taliban government should be replaced by a government acceptable to his company.
- 1999 Clinton, freezes US held Taliban assets, & prohibits trade.
- 2001 US tells Taliban “Either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs.”
- 2001, the Taliban has reduced the opium fields down to 7606 hectares, 185 tons of opium.
- 2001, October – Military operations with aerial bombardment begun in Afghanistan
- 2002 With US/CIA in full control of Afghanistan opium production is revived
- 2003 765 metric tons of heroin came from Afghanistan.
- 2004 80% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan up 239% over 2003.
- 2005 Production in Afghanistan is 95% of worlds opium. Congress allots $774 million for anti-drug operations in Afghanistan in 2005, and allocated another $510 million for 2006–2007. For what to help it? The opium has only increased during these years.
- 2006 Afghanistan production is 30% more than the world consumes. Heroin floods America, Europe and the streets of most countries. Opium production in Afghanistan is up to 165,000 hectares, 6100 tons of opium.
- 2007 The sky is the limit, Buck up America
The Taliban government was instrumental in implementing a successful drug eradication program, with the support and collaboration of the UN. The same UN who placed trade sanctions on Afghanistan from 1999 – 2001. The opium fields were being eliminated.
It’s a fact that since 2001 the US government in conjunction with the CIA control the country of Afghanistan. Under US and CIA control the country has completely revived its posture as producing the worlds opium and heroin with no end in sight. Since 2001 the US and Afghan governments have thwarted efforts to eradicate the opium fields, Why? You only continue the drug trade if you have a vested interest in it. You only continue the ability for the worst drug on earth to flourish if you have a vested interest in it.
The Bush Administration may go down in history for destroying more people and families than any other “group” in history unless they are stopped.
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