Afghan Opium Harvesting Protected by British & American Occupation Forces // 2014 the largest Opium crop in History.

[Cidersomerset]

One of the consequences or agenda ? of the Afghan war was the resurrection of the
opium trade that was stamped out briefly by the Taliban regime.When the US/UK
led NATO forces invaded they were aided in the fight against the Taliban by the
northern Warlords who were part of the international Opium trade run by CIA
affiliates and others. The Taliban were prepared to hand over Bin Laden if the
US could give them proof he organised the 9/11 attacks. Of course they could
not and they had to invade in the wake of the hysteria of the 'False flag' attack.
Looking back at it now the only thing the invasion has achieved apart from
thousands of deaths is a record Opium crop. There,s something very suspicious
about this ' mainstream' press !!

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The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade

Washington's Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky....Global Research, May 25, 2015



http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spo...eroin-trade/91

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The Worst Narco-State in History? After 13-Year War, Afghanistan’s Opium Trade Floods the Globe

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jk5hCLgnY7Y

Published on 29 Dec 2014


http://democracynow.org - In the 13 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan
in 2001, the country's opium production has doubled, now accounting for about 90
percent of the world's supply. To learn more, we are joined by Matthieu Aikins, a Kabul-
based journalist whose latest report for Rolling Stone magazine explores Afghanistan's
heroin boom. "What has happened in Afghanistan over the last 13 years has been the
flourishing of a narco-state that is really without any parallel in history," Aikins
says. "This is something that is extraordinary, that is catastrophic, that has grave
danger for the future and yet there has been virtually no discussion of in recent years."

Watch 13 years of Democracy Now! coverage of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan in our online archive:
http://www.democracynow.org/topics/af...


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Afghan Opium Harvesting Protected by British Occupation Forces

By David Icke on 24th August 2015 War and Terror



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GLOBAL RESEARCH...........................

Afghan Opium Harvesting Protected by British Occupation Forces

Opium Harvesting, c.200 metres from Camp Bastion Airfield Perimeter

By Anthony Heaford
Global Research, August 23, 2015

The photograph shows five men harvesting opium a couple of hundred metres
from Camp Bastion perimeter defences, seen in the foreground.



Not only was this illegal drug production being carried out in the shadow
of ISAF’s Main Operating Base, it was being done under the protection of
British soldiers. Her Majesty’s Armed Forces (Army and RAF) were protecting
this man’s cash crop from illicit ‘taxation’ by the Afghan National Police or Army.

The duplicity is in what the Ministry of Defence tell people we are doing, and
what we are actually doing. As this photo was taken there was a World Service
edition of ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ playing. The particular BBC correspondent,
Quentin Sommerville, was ‘embedded’ with British soldiers in Helmand, who were
assisting in the destruction of poppy fields. This must raise the question as to why
poppy fields on the edge of Bastion’s airfield were protected whilst another farmer’s
crop in a neighboring valley was destroyed?

The duplicity is in what the Ministry of Defence tell people we are doing, and what
we are actually doing. As this photo was taken there was a World Service edition
of ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ playing. The particular BBC correspondent,
Quentin Sommerville, was ‘embedded’ with British soldiers in Helmand, who were
assisting in the destruction of poppy fields. This must raise the question as to why
poppy fields on the edge of Bastion’s airfield were protected whilst another
farmer’s crop in a neighboring valley was destroyed?



The land in the once barren valley was now watered by the effluent of the 30,000
people living in Camp Bastion, creating a mini property boom for the owner of the
land, a Mohammad Daoud. The valley bordering Camp Bastion’s airfield had become
a busy agricultural area, with parcels of land rented out to tenant farmers, migrant
farm laborers camping a hundred metres from the defences, plus all the
traffic. Whether this is the same Mohammad Daoud as former Governor of Helmand
Province Mohammad Daoud is yet to be confirmed. If confirmed, the irony of former
Governor Daoud having previously championed British poppy eradication efforts would
illustrate our corruption accurately.

To quote former Governor Daoud:


Unless the international community includes poppy eradication and fighting drugs in
their list of ways to fight terrorism, they will not succeed in this fight because it
(the drug trade) is the fuel in the machine of terrorism.

Our incompetence is best ‘illustrated’ by the deaths of two US Marines, Sergeant
Bradley Atwell and Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible, and the destruction of £200+
million worth of equipment, in the Taliban’s audacious airfield raid of 2012. The
attackers of 14th September launched the raid from this same valley, where despite it’s
proximity to £££Billions of aircraft across the airfield, the Command appeared to assess
the risk there as minimal to non existent. This ‘lax’ attitude (criminal negligence in my
eyes) reportedly extended to not providing any night vision equipment to soldiers
guarding the airfield on a moonless Afghan night. To describe this as simple
‘incompetence’ is being very generous indeed to those responsible.

Two men are dead because the British Army and Royal Air Force failed to protect a
stationary target – an airfield. I can only apologize for my part in that.

Author: Anthony C Heaford, Craftsman / Vehicle Mechanic in British Territorial Army
2009 to 2013, No.30088729. Six month tour of Afghanistan, April to October 2012.
Based in Camp Bastion.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/afghan-...forces/5470988

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Afghan Opium Trade CIA Payrolled and Protected by Troops

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZErSD4rlRDs

Uploaded on 29 Oct 2009
Latest news articles and reviews of CIA activity in the Afghan Opium Trade and how
the troops are little more than caretakers of Opium fields in order for the CIA
bankrolled operations to continue.

Soldier Admits To Helping Grow Opium In Afghanistan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfBQ_vi0xdA

Published on 23 Oct 2014

Infowars Reporter Joe Biggs Breaks down Why the Opium Trade in Afghanistan has
skyrocketed even though the US government has spent 7 Billion to halt opium growth.
He also gives a first hand account of missions he was on In Afghanistan where he was
told to guard opium fields. Our Government obviously isn't putting 7 billion dollars
towards stopping the growth opium and is instead helping its growth. So many people
every year get addicted to opiates and heroin. We know the CIA used Freeway Ricky
Ross to bring Cocaine in to California, What makes you think that they wont do it again.

AFGHAN OPIUM POPPY YIELD HITS ALL-TIME HIGH - http://www.infowars.com/afghan-opium-...

[Cidersomerset]

This is from 2011 some interesting information about the Global drug trade created
primary by the CIA after WW11.

The EyeOpener - White Gold Heroin & the Destabilization of Afghanistan

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ey1f5igcNTU

28 August 2011

The Power(s) Behind Afghan Heroin & the Real Profiteers of the International Drug Trade

The idea that the drug trade in Afghanistan is enabled and protected by western interests
for their own benefit is by no means a new or controversial idea. After all, we are talking
about the third most lucrative commodity in the world behind oil and the arms trade.
However, the media coverage of this issue involving hundreds of billions of dollars is
another story. James Corbett brings to you questions and points not dared to be raised
by the media and pseudo alternatives alike.

This is our EyeOpener Video Report by James Corbett on Afghanistan's White Gold for
boilingfrogspost.com

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/...
http://www.corbettreport.com/support/

[Matt P]

But of course this was all by design. The united states government isn't a government at all. It's an organized crime syndicate. It's a beautiful system if I must say. They manipulate laws to keep natural plants illegal so they can make huge black market profits on them, which are off the books and used to fund all their secret programs. They encourage and fund the manufacture of cheap laboratory imitations (vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs) to make even more profit by keeping people sick and dependent. The banks and markets play along with the game because the cash keeps them liquid and they get a huge slice of the pie. In a nutshell the US "government" is the biggest drug pusher in the history of the known world.

Matt

[Ted]

Drugs are only illegal to stifle competition and keep prices high. The "war on drugs" only targets those people who aren't powerful enough to buy protection.

[Cidersomerset]

Drugs are only illegal to stifle competition and keep prices high.
The "war on drugs" only targets those people who aren't powerful enough
to buy protection.

I agree Ted......gives me an excuse for a 'rant'......


Aprox 3 mins into the James Corbett vid above he gives some figures for the Opium
trade from Afghanistan , not sure where he got them, but James is usually a
thorough researcher, and if they are wrong you will get the jist and why it was vital
to invade Afghanistan as part of the overall 9/11 Neo - con /NWO agenda... $ 1
Billion for the Farmers and growers. $ 3 Billion for Afghan officials and
transportation out of the country, the rest has a reported street value of $ 200
Billion, for that year. It obviously fluctuates but is a massive black budget cash crop
laundered by the 'Banksters'..............

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Remember this propaganda lie and 'psyop'.........and Lies , Lies , Lies ............

Donald Rumsfeld, Tim Russert and the Imaginary Bin Laden Bunker Caves

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QgWrnahej2c

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SURPRISE! Dick Cheney Admits Osama Bin Laden Wasn't Directly Involved In 9 11
Or Saddam , because he and his associates organised the attack on America,
he does not say that bit...LOL

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IxqOESr6Hdw

Uploaded on 12 May 2011

Osama Bin Boogeyman Laden was NEVER on the FBI's most wanted list for any
participation in the 9 11 attack.

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So Mr. Chaney , Mr.Bush , Mr Rumsfeld , Mr . Blair ..... Why did you invade Afghanistan ???

[Cidersomerset]

This is a post from a previous thread with an excerpt from a very
good BBC doc before they were censored and made to tow the
party line after 7/7.


Worlds Apart ? BLATENT PROPAGANDA ? .......Bin Laden 'focused on US to the end', papers show

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...827#post962827

I imagine that it would have been a fun job supplying all the back story material that
was to be "recovered" from his hideout. All the pot, the books, emails, etc etc etc. I call bs on
the whole debacle.. I wonder what future crimes he will perpetrate? By the way, whatever
happened to al quieda? Did we win? Did they all retire? I wonder what happened to them all?
Well at least we have Isis to keep us busy..... Bs.... N

Very good NASU...LOL


As the old song goes....." Old Terrorists Never Die , They are Simply Blown Apart "
Or becomes leader of their countries and join the 'Establishment Club'...


Clips from some earlier 'Intel Productions'......

RAMBO 111



President Reagan meets with mixed Afghan delegation circa 1983 ?




Taliban delegation invited to the US Before 9/11


Do-American-people-know-that-Taliban-delegation-was-invited-to-USA-and-treated-
as-Honorable-guest-before-911-attack-Why
https://www.quora.com/Do-American-pe...911-attack-Why

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=huLx99_dopo

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Re: Bin Laden: What Do We Really Know

The US/UK NATO led invasion of Afghanistan is one of the biggest scams of the
21st century to date , and it was only a year old when 9/11 happened the clammer
to invade and get Bin Laden was a psyop from the beginning....

Total fabrigation to get rid of the Taliban and reopen the poppy fields and opium
trade among other plans for the country. It was also all part of the destruction
of information in building seven. A convenient way to demolish the twin towers
that had to come down anyway as the cost of refurbishment was colossal. ' Lucky
Larry' my arse , the drills and all the other 'COINCIDENCES' are ridiculous....
The murder of all those innocent victims and the millions after have not been
brought to book to date !!

Anyway we were led to believe 'Al Quaeda ' were the devils army dug in with
more weapons than ' Texas' ....LOL



Dick Cheney...911 Remember the lies... Imaginary Bin Laden Bunker Caves

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Up_BRRiwXE

There is a good BBC doc and amongst the propaganda they do some good
docs and post articles on the website , but they are not highlighted .
I have posted it several times and i' looking for it now......

This is a really good segment.....

9/11 Truth - Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5fjzzgzZJns

There's no such thing as al Qaeda, or al Qaida, or however you want to spell it. It's
a fraud perpetrated on the American people by our own government to scare us
into submission. This is a clip from the excellent three-part BBC documentary "The
Power of Nightmares". You can watch the whole thing on Google Video or download
it at scholarsfor911truth.org.

"The Power of Nightmares - 3of3 - The Rise of the Politics of", audiovisual content administered by:
BBC Worldwide

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...025#post962025

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...827#post962827

[Cidersomerset]

But of course this was all by design. The united states government isn't a government at all.
It's an organized crime syndicate. It's a beautiful system if I must say. They manipulate laws to keep
natural plants illegal so they can make huge black market profits on them, which are off the books and
used to fund all their secret programs. They encourage and fund the manufacture of cheap laboratory
imitations (vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs) to make even more profit by keeping people sick and
dependent. The banks and markets play along with the game because the cash keeps them liquid and
they get a huge slice of the pie. In a nutshell the US "government" is the biggest drug pusher in the
history of the known world.

Matt

Absolutely right Matt.....

[Morbid]

fyi the british royal family cartel owns world's opium traffic... using countries such as albania to smuggle into europe etc..

[Cidersomerset]

fyi the british royal family cartel owns world's opium traffic... using countries such as albania to smuggle into europe etc..

The drugs trade is very old and I think Hong Kong was founded as a British
colony as part of the Opium wars with China in the19th century, and I'm
sure part of the profits found it way back to the elitist establishment .

The British Royal and merchant naval fleets ruled the waves for over a
century which mean't the worldwide transport and distribution of these
narcotics were controlled by the crown and exchequer.

In the 20th century this has been taken over by the CIA and other
factions that are influenced and probably controlled by the same
elite families that ran and influenced the British , French and other
empires thru the centuries.

[Cidersomerset]

THE GUARDIAN.......

Former Blackwater gets rich as Afghan drug production hits record high

Opium poppy cultivation is up in Afghanistan despite the infamous mercenary firm
formerly known as Blackwater being paid $569m by the Pentagon to stop it



Afghan farmers harvest in an opium poppy field in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on 27
March 2015. Afghanistan is listed as world’s largest opium producer. Photograph:
Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA


Spencer Ackerman
Tuesday 31 March 2015 17.13 BST Last modified on Thursday 2 April 2015 23.31 BST

In a war full of failures, the US counternarcotics mission in Afghanistan stands out:
opiate production has climbed steadily over recent years to reach record-high levels
last year.Yet one clear winner in the anti-drug effort is not the Afghan people, but
the infamous mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater.

Opium harvest in Afghanistan reaches record levels after troop withdrawal

Read more

Statistics released on Tuesday reveal that the rebranded private security firm,
known since 2011 as Academi, reaped over a quarter billion dollars from the futile
Defense Department push to eradicate Afghan narcotics, some 21% of the $1.5 bn
in contracting money the Pentagon has devoted to the job since 2002.

The company is the second biggest beneficiary of counternarcotics largesse in
Afghanistan. Only the defense giant Northrop Grumman edged it out, with $325m.

According to the US inspector general for Afghanistan “reconstruction”, the $309m
Academi got from US taxpayers paid for “training, equipment, and logistical
support” to Afghan forces conducting counternarcotics, such as “the Afghan
National Interdiction Unit, the Ministry of Interior, and the Afghan Border Police”.

Far from eradicating the deep-rooted opiate trade, US counternarcotics efforts have
proven useless, according to a series of recent official inquiries. Other aspects of
the billions that the US has poured into Afghanistan over the last 13 years of war
have even contributed to the opium boom.

In December, the United Nations reported a 60% growth in Afghan land used for
opium poppy cultivation since 2011, up to 209,000 hectares. The estimated $3bn
value of Afghan heroin and morphine represents some 15% of Afghan GDP.

“Given the growth in opium poppy cultivation, it must be assumed that the
Taliban’s income from the illegal trade in narcotics has remained an important
factor in generating assets for the group,” the United Nations reported.

That same month, the US inspector general for Afghanistan warned that the opium
trade would surely rise as international aid money flees the country with the
winding down of the war. Yet the inspector general also noted that US
reconstruction projects, particularly those devoted to “improved irrigation, roads,
and agricultural assistance” were probably leading to the explosion in opium
cultivation.

“[A]ffordable deep-well technology turned 200,000 hectares of desert in
southwestern Afghanistan into arable land over the past decade,” the inspector
general found, concluding that “much of this newly arable land is dedicated to
opium cultivation”.

Academi and its former Blackwater incarnation have an infamous history in
Afghanistan. It once set up shell companies to disguise its business practices,
according to a Senate report, so that its contracts would be unimpeded by company
employees’ killings of Iraqi and Afghan civilians.

Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, sold the company – then renamed “Xe” – in
2010. Under new ownership, the firm occasionally gestures toward emphasizing its
original business training military and police personnel, but it has never quite
divested itself of its security contracting business.

In 2010, Blackwater was one of a group of firms selected by the State Department
for its $10bn contract to protect its diplomats worldwide, precisely the mission
Blackwater performed when its agents opened fire on Iraqi civilians at Baghdad’s
Nisour Square in 2007 and turned the company into the ugly face of private
security. The following year, the firm’s newly installed CEO pledged, “We’re not
backing away from security services.”

A spokesman for Academi’s parent company, the Constellis Group, said that the
current firm had separated itself from its Blackwater ancestry.


“When the ownership of Constellis Group purchased our Moyock, N.C. training
facility in 2010, Blackwater as the world knew it ceased to exist,” said spokesman
Tom McCuin.

“Since then, the new ownership, through a completely new management team,
have worked diligently to establish a reputation for competence and accountability.
I realize that for many skeptics, we have a long way to go toward winning their
trust, and that for some, nothing we do will ever change their view. I can only
reiterate how committed we are to delivering what we promise.”
This article was amended on Thursday 2 April. Since publication, the US Special
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction significantly revised its estimates
of US counternarcotics contracting totals. This article has been updated accordingly.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...rug-production

[Cidersomerset]

All the blood spilled in Afghanistan to re - establish international drug cartel , that
was interrupted temporarily by the Taliban.....................

No one seems to know where the seeds originate from. The farmers of
Kandahar and Helmand provinces, where most of Afghanistan's poppies are grown,
say they were hand-delivered for planting early this year by the same men who
collect the opium after each harvest, and who also provide them with tools,
fertilizer, farming advice — and the much needed cash advance.

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RIA Novosti (Oct. 23, 2009): The most modern and the best equipped laboratories processing
opium poppy into heroin are located in the northern provinces of Afghanistan near the Tajik,
Turkmen and Uzbek borders, which are areas of influence of the Northern Alliance. The real
threat comes from drug bosses operating in the north of Afghanistan, "and the coalition
forces are not conducting an effective fight against them," the official said.

Read more: http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009...#ixzz3jr1lXSot

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009...to-russia.html
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Huffington Post............


Afghanistan's Poppy Farmers Say New Seeds Will Boost Opium Output

By MIRWAIS KHAN and LYNNE O'DONNELL
Posted: 05/05/2015 4:51 pm EDT Updated: 05/05/2015 4:59 pm EDT



ZHARI, Afghanistan (AP) — It's the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan
— the country's intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are
expecting a windfall as they get ready to harvest opium from a new variety of poppy seeds
said to boost yield of the resin that produces heroin.

The plants grow bigger, faster, use less water than seeds they've used before, and give up to
double the amount of opium, they say.

No one seems to know where the seeds originate from. The farmers of Kandahar and Helmand
provinces, where most of Afghanistan's poppies are grown, say they were hand-delivered for
planting early this year by the same men who collect the opium after each harvest, and who
also provide them with tools, fertilizer, farming advice — and the much needed cash advance.

To the villagers, the shadowy men are intermediaries for drug lords and regional traffickers
working with or for the Taliban, underscoring the extensive web that fuels the opium trade
and keeps the poppy farmers in a clasp of terror and dependency. The impoverished famers
have little recourse but to accept the seeds and other farming materials on credit, to be paid
back when they harvest the crop, continuing a never ending cycle of debt.


Afghanistan's poppy harvest, which accounts for most of the world's heroin, is worth an estimated
$3 billion a year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Production hit a
record high in 2014, up 17 percent compared to the year before, as opium and the drugs trade
continued to undermine security, rule of law and development, while funding both organized
crime and the Taliban — often one and the same.

The trend is expected to continue in 2015, in part thanks to the new poppy seeds, according to
officials tasked with overseeing the eradication of poppy crops.

This upcoming harvest in late spring is expected to surpass last year's country-wide record of
7,800 metric tons (8,600 U.S. tons) by as much as 7 percent and 22 percent in Kandahar and
Helmand provinces respectively, local officials said.

Experts say the Taliban, who have been waging war on the Kabul government for more than a
decade, derive around 40 percent of their funding from opium, which in turn fuels their insurgency.

Fierce fighting in recent months in poppy-growing regions shows the Taliban's determination to
protect their trafficking routes and the seasonal workers who come to earn money at harvest
time from government forces under orders to eradicate the crop.

Gul Mohammad Shukran, chief of Kandahar's anti-narcotics department, said the new seeds came
with the drug traffickers, but he did not know exactly where from. They yield "better drug plants,
which require less water and have a faster growth time."

"This is a big threat to everyone," he said, adding that Afghanistan's central authorities had failed
to act on his warnings.

Growing poppy for opium is illegal in Afghanistan and forbidden under Islam, the country's predominant
religion. But Afghan farmers feel they have no choice. For more than a decade the government and its
international partners have pleaded with them to grow something else — wheat, fruit or even saffron.

When that didn't work, the police were sent to destroy crops. And when that failed, the Americans and
the British tried handing out free wheat seeds, an enterprise that found little fertile ground.

This spring, the opium fields have again erupted in a sea of bright pink poppy flowers.

The new poppy seeds allow farmers to almost double the output from each plant, said Helmand's provincial
police chief Nabi Jan Malakhail. At harvest, collectors cut the bulb of the plant, allowing the raw opium to
ooze out. This resin dries and is collected the following day.

Malakhail said the new seeds grow bulbs that are bigger than usual and can be scored twice within a few days,
thus doubling the quantity of raw opium. The plants mature in three to four months, rather than the five months
of the previous seed variety, allowing farmers to crop three times a year instead of just twice.

In Kandahar's Zhari district, farmer Abdul Baqi said he knows poppy growing is illegal and that, given a choice,
he would "rather eat grass." But, he added, "I cannot feed my kids with nothing but the air."

Baqi said the Taliban and associated crime gangs make it easy for the farmers to produce opium, and
difficult — even deadly — not to.

Without government support, it's impossible to grow food crops as the cash-strapped farmers would have to pay
for the seeds, tools, fertilizer and irrigation themselves. No one would come and collect their crop, even if their
landlords allowed them to grow wheat or other food.

If the government took charge and provided irrigation and power, Hismatullah Janan, another Zhari poppy grower,
said he would gladly change to growing wheat or similar crops "so we could make an honest and decent living,
and leave this so-called dirty work behind."

Afghan anti-narcotics officials say they need international assistance to proceed with poppy eradication.

Yet since 2002, the United States has spent at least $7 billion "on a wide variety of programs to reduce
poppy cultivation, prevent narcotics production, treat drug addiction and improve the criminal justice
system to combat drug trafficking," John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction,
told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control in January.Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the
world's opium and opiates originating from there find their way to every corner of the globe, Sopko said.
The Taliban will also likely be emboldened, since for the first time this year, there are no international combat
troops on the battlefields of Afghanistan after the NATO drawdown at the end of 2014.Many anti-narcotics
officials also left, fuelling concerns that Afghanistan's economic addiction to opium, worth around 15 percent
of its gross domestic product, would only grow, Sopko added.

Almost 90 percent of Afghanistan's poppy cultivation is in the south and the west — and provinces such as
Helmand and Kandahar, longtime Taliban strongholds, have become synonymous for poppy cultivation.

As opium production rises, so does Afghanistan's own drug addiction problem. Estimates put the number of
heroin addicts in the country at between 1.5 million and 2 million in a population estimated at around 30 million.
And the unchecked Afghan opium production is also blamed for rising drug addiction in neighboring countries,
including the former Soviet republics to the north, Iran to the west, and China and Pakistan to the east.

The UNODC can do little beyond encouraging the government to curb opium production, said the organization's
chief in Afghanistan, Andrey Avetisyan.

Kabul, with the support from the international community, he said, needs to find a way to introduce "crops that
can be a serious competition to opium."But for now, finding something more lucrative than the mystery poppy
seeds is a daunting task, so the vicious opium cycle continues.

___

Lynne O'Donnell reported from Kabul, Afghanistan.

Follow Lynne O'Donnell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lynnekodonnell

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7216756.html

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[Cidersomerset]

"Of course we do not want to undermine our shares in the world drug cartel "..... LOL

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Tories demolish 200,000-strong petition to legalise cannabis before it’s even debated

By David Icke on 26th August 2015 Illuminati Criminals, Medical/Health, Political Manipulation

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MIRROR ON LINE...............






‘The government has moved to crush a 200,000-strong petition to legalise cannabis
before it’s even been debated.Activists hailed a victory when the huge campaign became
the second-most popular cause on a new government website – beaten only by a bid to
sack Jeremy Hunt.

It flew past 100,000 signatures, forcing a debate by a committee of 11 MPs when they
return from their summer holidays in a few weeks.The Tory administration has now
issued a thundering reply which says it has no plans to end the war on drugs.’


Read more: Tories demolish 200,000-strong petition to legalise cannabis before it’s even debated

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...tition-6321775

[Cidersomerset]

Who is Protecting the Drug Trade? Afghan Officials Blame
NATO after Eleven anti-Drug Police Officers Killed in Airstrike

By David Icke on 10th September 2015 War and Terror

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RT NEWS............



‘A US-led coalition airstrike killed 11 Afghan anti-drug police officers
in southern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Monday. Amid
conflicting reports, NATO has denied responsibility.

The airstrike hit the unstable, opium-rich province of Helmand on Sunday,
AFP cited officials as saying. “Eleven counter-narcotics police were killed
and four others were wounded in an airstrike carried out by international
forces in the Garmsir district of Helmand province,” deputy Interior
Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said.’

Read more: Who is Protecting the Drug Trade? Afghan Officials Blame
NATO after Eleven anti-Drug Police Officers Killed in Airstrike

http://www.rt.com/news/314685-us-air...s-afghanistan/

[Cidersomerset]

Extensive Heroin Use in US. The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Opium Production

By David Icke on 17th September 2015 War and Terror



‘Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of
patients I encountered who were using heroin. I had never seen anything like
it, during a lifetime practicing medicine. In New Hampshire, it was said, deaths
from heroin now exceed deaths from car accidents. Nationwide, CDC noted,
“Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly
quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013.” Massachusetts
(population under 7 million) had 1,000 deaths related to (all) opioids in
2014, “the highest ever recorded.“

I’ve heard stories on NPR about insufficient state funding of heroin treatment
facilities. I’ve heard about plans to make Narcan injections available to iv drug
users, for overdoses. Another popular angle I’ve seen repeated multiple times
(and one currently pushed by the US Drug Enforcement Agency) claims
prescription narcotics became harder to get, so users switched to heroin, instead.’

Read more: Extensive Heroin Use in US. The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Opium Production

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/...documents.html

[Cidersomerset]

Exposed: British Soldiers Protect Afghanistan Opium Trade

By David Icke on 13th October 2015 War and Terror

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Exposed: British Soldiers Protect Afghanistan Opium Trade
Oct 12, 2015

Opium Harvesting, c.200 metres from Camp Bastion Airfield Perimeter



‘In this 7.5° view of Afghanistan, captured from an Airfield guard tower, we
can see several less auspicious elements of the ISAF invasion and occupation:
• Corruption
• Duplicity
• Heroin Production
• Incompetence

The photograph shows five men harvesting opium a couple of hundred metres
from Camp Bastion perimeter defences, seen in the foreground.

Not only was this illegal drug production being carried out in the shadow of ISAF’s
Main Operating Base, it was being done under the protection of British soldiers.
Her Majesty’s Armed Forces (Army and RAF) were protecting this man’s cash crop
from illicit ‘taxation’ by the Afghan National Police or Army.’

The duplicity is in what the Ministry of Defence tell people we are doing, and what
we are actually doing. As this photo was taken there was a World Service edition of
‘From Our Own Correspondent’ playing. The particular BBC correspondent, Quentin
Somerville, was ‘embedded’ with British soldiers in Helmand, who were assisting
in the destruction of poppy fields. This must raise the question as to why poppy fields
on the edge of Bastion’s airfield were protected whilst another farmer’s crop in a
neighbouring valley was destroyed?



The land in the once barren valley was now watered by the effluent of the 30,000 people
living in Camp Bastion, creating a mini property boom for the owner of the land, a
Mohammad Daoud. The valley bordering Camp Bastion’s airfield had become a busy
agricultural area, with parcels of land rented out to tenant farmers, migrant farm labourers
camping a hundred metres from the defences, plus all the associated traffic.

Whether this is the same Mohammad Daoud as former Governor of Helmand Province Mohammad
Daoud is yet to be confirmed. If confirmed, the irony of former Governor Daoud having previously
championed British poppy eradication efforts would illustrate our corruption accurately.

To quote former Governor Daoud:

“Unless the international community includes poppy eradication and fighting drugs in their list of
ways to fight terrorism, they will not succeed in this fight because it (the drug trade) is the fuel
in the machine of terrorism.”

Our incompetence is best ‘illustrated’ by the deaths of two US Marines, Sergeant Bradley Atwell
and Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible, and the destruction of £200+ million worth of equipment,
in the Taliban’s audacious airfield raid of 2012.

The attackers of 14th September launched the raid from this same valley, where despite it’s proximity
to £££Billions of aircraft across the airfield, the Command appeared to assess the risk there as minimal
to non existent. This ‘lax’ attitude (criminal negligence in my eyes) reportedly extended to not providing
any night vision equipment to soldiers guarding the airfield on a moonless Afghan night. To describe
this as simple ‘incompetence’ is being very generous indeed to those responsible.

Two men are dead because the British Army and Royal Air Force failed to protect a stationary target –
an airfield. I can only apologize for my part in that.

Author: Anthony C Heaford
Craftsman / Vehicle Mechanic in British Territorial Army 2009 to 2013, No.30088729.
Six month tour of Afghanistan, April to October 2012. Based in Camp Bastion.

Read more: Exposed: British Soldiers Protect Afghanistan Opium Trade

http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/...n-opium-trade/

[idiit]

excellent thread cindersomerset.

looks by the thumbs up you're getting here that the members are up to speed on this issue.

1/11 viewers are projectavalon members; 10/11 viewers are ppl coming in off msm looking for different perspectives. it's getting the message out to those 10/11 coming in for alternative perspectives that's going to change mass consciousness and help free the planet and it's inhabitants from the reptilian agenda.

isis in Syria and now the opium traffic are being destroyed by Russia, Iran and others joining the anti-cabal forces.

Germany took on the Zionists and got destroyed and history got rewritten to hide the NWO autrocities like eisenhowser death camps and more.

this time we gots China, Russia, Iran and others coming against the NWO elite cabal forces ( not all cabal sectors are Zionists but all are NWO).

I think you're doing a great job on isis and now the heroin drug trade. it's important work.

[idiit]

controllers of the Pentagon are themselves under the control of a secret occult-linked drug trafficking group.

Is the RKM World Control Grid run by a secret inter-generational "bloodline" group of Opium Traffickers that has infiltrated the Pentagon and uses the Israeli-American Terror machine as its enforcer ?

(rkm is rothschilds khazarian mafia kicked out of Ukraine by Russia)

This group is also believed to run the Israeli-American Terror machine and the private central Banking Systems run out of the City of London.

This group controls most of the World’s political systems through private Fiat central banking while waging wars to extend power and generate massive profits not otherwise possible.

But there have also been claims that this powerful group of “World Money-changers” originally gained much of its foreign power from creating and maintaining a large international opium trafficking network or cartel hidden behind a City of London Proprietary Intel operation.

Some historians believe that this large Opium trafficking group operated through a proprietary Intel front known as the British East India Company.

read opium wars

It is now generally recognized that the *RKM is an inter-generational family-based private international central Fiat banking group insiders refer to as the “World Money-changers”, or “the Baby” because it is at the nexus of the revived mystery Babylonian Talmudic Banking system, also known as the “money from nothing” Babylonian Money-magick system.

Once the Rothschild Family took over the City of London after waterloo, their main goal adopted was to hijack and then revitalize the British Empire which was beginning to fail and shrink. But they intended to do so in a covert way so that each of the captive nations truly believed they were becoming independent.

The exceedingly crafty plan they developed was to set up a secret private central banking network to replace the visible British Colonial governments. But in order to do this they deemed it was necessary to gain secret control over most of the underworld crime groups in these colonies and use this criminal network to build up the strength of their secret empire.

continue to read this excellent article here: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10...-dirty-secret/

usa is under Zionist control. Afghanistan/Iraq/turkey are key elements in the global opium/heroin epidemic. must read article explains "the insanity" that once you get it is no longer insane.

fiat currency, heroin; global enslavement devices.

the Zionists are actually khazarian luciferians. Saudi royals are Zionists.

putin, china, iran are putting an end to global fiat currency (frn$) and heroin trafficking out of opium producing nations guarded by usa and nato military forces.

this is a critical thread in understanding the carnage in the middle east.

90% of all casualties are innocent civilians; mostly women and children.

dorothy has peeled back the curtain.

[Pam]

The other part of the puzzle: all the misery from those addicted to these drugs filling the jails and prisons which is another big business for these filthy, corrupt mobsters known at "government officials".

Of the 2.3 million inmates crowding our nations prisons and jails, 1.5 million meet the DSM-IV medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction, and another 458,000, while not meeting the strict DSM-IV criteria, had histories of substance abuse; were under the influence of alcohol or other drugs at the time of their crime; committed their offense to get money to buy drugs; were incarcerated for an alcohol or drug law violation; or shared some combination of these characteristics, according to Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population. Combined these two groups constitute 85% of the U.S. prison population. Quoted from CASA Report, 2010

Of course that doesn't include those that have had there behavior altered by prescribed psychoactive drugs that have played havoc on their biochemistry enough to cause those that would never commit a crime to do so.

[Alpha141]

If you are interested in this topic. The series of printings of a book called 'Dope Inc' are exceptional. I am at present reading the 1992 (3rd) version that is very long. But amazing info. Basically, the present financial system and 'Old Money' is basically founded on the opium trade from the last few centuries.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7peKQze6xoY

People i suggest looking out for are Daniel Hopsicker, Dean Henderson, Mary Kienholz along with EIR (Executive Intelligence Review as the above interview is a representation of).

A clip from Daniel Hopsicker from about 57min on is included in my series below also which gets his views on that quote Peterpam re poisoning people for nothing while the real crooks get away with trading this stuff by the tonne etc:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Gv-6FALczE

Enjoy

[idiit]

If you are interested in this topic. The series of printings of a book called 'Dope Inc' are exceptional

the author of one of my posted articles said the same.