DEA team to fight Afgani opium trade

[Rose Siding]

FORT BENNING, Ga. - A new corps of DEA agents fresh from commando training will take on Afghan opium lords who are threatening to turn the new democracy into a narco-state.
The possibility of Afghanistan getting overrun by heroin trafficking - which funds Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants, according to some officials - was the shocking warning of a State Department report last month.
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The 31 agents and four analysts - including two women - mastered hand-to-hand combat and "reflexive" shooting from Army Special Forces here. They drilled in the use of night-vision goggles and learned how to spot land mines.

They will be armed to the teeth with assault weapons and trained for war because raiding an illicit site in the largely lawless country still bristling with terrorists "isn't like hitting a door in New York," said Frank, 33, an agent and ex-Ranger who works in the city.
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Agents already in Afghanistan staged their first joint raid with DEA-trained Afghan police on March 15, destroying three labs and seizing 2,200 kilos of opium, officials said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/295997p-253417c.html

[Webster Green]

1. Great.....another terrorist organization setting up in Afghanistan...

DEA agents are the scum of the earth. I hope they get a really nice reception from the drug lords.

[0007]

2. DEA can't even clean things up here in the US so why would they

even try in Afghanistan? 0h, I forgot there is big bucks in dope.

[0007]

3. America wants the drug business to pay for the wars

[madrchsod]

4. it`s april 3

the april fools jokes are over aren`t they? we have done such a good job in the usa and south-central america ,lets try it over there

[VegasWolf]

5. Hell, they can't even control South Central LA. n/t

[signmike]

7. They ARE controling it -- that's why they call it

"a controlled substance"

So who's in charge of this "Raid" / Takeover ?? Ollie North ?

[joanski01]

6. This is laughable.

I still remember a Congressional hearing when one of the Dem Congressmen asked what we were doing about the growing poppies. General Meyers just shrugged and said that the Brits were in charge of taking care of that. Yeah, right. It seems that Afghanistan has a bumper crop.

[leesa]

8. That's a hoot! Why would they fight against their bread and butter?

[Al-CIAda]

9. State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade

State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade
 -FBI Whistleblower

Sibel Edmonds- FBI Whistleblower, interview
SE: Everything – from drugs to money laundering to arms sales. And yes, there are certain convergences with all these activities and international terrorism.
CD: So with these organizations we're talking about a lot of money –
SE: Huge, just massive. They don't deal with 1 million or 5 million dollars, but with hundreds of millions.
CD: From your previous testimony and the examples I want to bring up next, it would seem that organized crime with terrorist links is really holding the reins inside powerful governments, even the American one. No?
SE: That may be, but I don't know. I didn't get high enough up on the ladder to find out. With all of this suspicious and unprecedented "state secrets" obstructionism from Ashcroft, it might seem that way, but I don't have any direct information.
CD: But what do think, within departments such as the Pentagon and the State Department. Do you suspect certain high officials may be profiting from terrorist-linked organized crime?
SE: I can't say anything specific with regards to these departments, because I didn't work for them. But as for the politicians, what I can say is that when you start talking about huge amounts of money, certain elected officials become automatically involved. And there are different kinds of campaign contributions – legal and illegal, declared and undeclared.
CD: Could this apparent toleration of dangerous criminal groups in the midst possibly be interpreted to mean that American policy is driven by the "ends justify the means" philosophy?
SE: But how are the ends possibly met by such activities? To this day, I just can't see how. What is happening does not benefit 99.9 percent of Americans – just a very small elite.
I'm no expert, but from what I have personally seen I can say that our national security is being compromised every day, because important investigations are being stopped, and potentially important clues are being overlooked. It's absolutely incredible that even after 9/11, certain individuals, foreign businessmen and others, among others, are still escaping scrutiny.
Okay, perhaps talking about the pre-9/11 world they could get away with saying "we didn't know," but to continue doing so – I mean, what if we are attacked by nuclear or chemical weapons, what will be their next excuse? That "we didn't know" it could happen? Come on! I can prove they are lying, because they know."
http://www.breakfornews.com/Sibel-Edmonds-Story.htm

[Zhade]

10. Yeah, the government that profits off drugs being illegal will "clean up".

They'll clean up, alright - financially.

"Thanks for the poppy fields, CIA!"

"No sweat, DEA!"

[jukes]

11. GOSH!

just like a TV movie!

[orpupilofnature57]

12. Why don't they take the sleazy criminals that make up most of thier...

intelligence, which is why it probably has some Rovian agenda anyway.