Tuesday, 25. November 2003
Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2003 at 10:07:58 AM CET
US plans war on al-Qaida's Afghan opium
American forces in Afghanistan are planning an offensive against the next opium crop, predicted to be the country's biggest ever, after calculating that drugs are now al-Qaida's main source of income.
A senior American official in Kabul told the Guardian that current British efforts to temper Afghanistan's opium output had had "absolutely no impact" on the amount of opium produced since the fall of the Taliban two years ago.
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