Thursday, 24. April 2008
Topic: DRUGS - on April 24, 2008 at 10:03:00 AM CEST
Afghanistan swaps heroin for wheat
I've just come from a meeting with the newly appointed Afghan governor Gulab Mangal where it emerged that for the first time since British forces deployed to the region two years ago local farmers are not concentrating all their energies on producing heroin.
Poppy eradication was flagged up as one of the main British priorities when former defence secretary John Reid first announced Britain's deployment two years ago.
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