hures.ch: U.S. Presides Over Explosion in Drug Trafficking In Iraq

[unhappycamper]

U.S. Presides Over Explosion in Drug Trafficking In Iraq
hures.ch

http://www.watchingamerica.com/24heures000002.html

Disguising themselves as Shiite Pilgrims, traffickers have turned Iraq into a major processing and transshipment point for illegal drugs.

According to the International Narcotics Control Board based in Vienna, Iraq is becoming a major drug processing and production point. This is a major slap in the face for the United States, which has made a priority of fighting global drug trafficking.

Now that it is so actively engaged in the fight against terror, will the United States neglect another world plague, the traffic in drugs? The answer to this is yes, the International Narcotics Control Board reveals in its report.

According to this independent organization based in Vienna and attached to the United Nations, Iraq is on its way to becoming a key transit point for drug traffickers shipping their cargo from Afghanistan and to Europe and Asia, a new report says.

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1. Condi abandoned the Columbia US controlled war on drugs--and

poppies all over afgan--and now this?



..This is a major slap in the face for the United States, which has made a priority of fighting global drug trafficking.........

[rodeodance]

2. says US can not do both wars at one time.

........This information first emanated from the Jordanian authorities, which recorded a significant increase in drug trafficking and the number of drug seizures at the Iraqi border. Last April, three million pills of Captagone, a type of amphetamine, were intercepted trying to cross the border into Jordanian territory.

In addition to Captagone, the seizure of "significant quantities" of cannabis resin and acetic anhydride, a chemical used to clandestinely manufacture heroin, would tend to prove that Iraq is becoming an important drug trafficking center as well, and cases of drug-addiction are on the rise.

Drugs containing internationally controlled substances, such as Diazepam, a very powerful anxiolytic , are readily available in the streets of Baghdad, where hospitals record a return to higher levels of drug-addiction.

The traffickers exploit the presence of so many Shiites pilgrims, who dare to venture into Iraqi territory to visit Kerbala and Nadjaf, the two holiest cities in their religion. This is an ideal cover for dealers, including a good number that could be somewhat easily stopped by the Iraqi authorities.
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[teryang]

3. It's the opium war all over again

There is a theory both economic and historical that drug trafficking by the United States is necessary to offset the balance of payments problem. In other words, international drug trafficking, is essential to the stability of American financial markets when we have inadequate products to ship abroad.

Recently, US government debt purchase by foreign countries has slipped. Just who is making the purchases of this debt from offshore banks? Where is the money coming from?

[Boo Boo]

4. I don't no whether to laugh

or cry. Afghanistan is now the #1 producer of Heroin in the world, and Iraq is becoming a key transit point for the distribution of that Heroin. Fucking incredible. Of course, it goes without saying that drug trafficking is raising money for the people that we are fighting, both in Iraq and Afghanistan. If there is another terrorist attack in the U.S. it will likely be payed for with money made from the poppy fields of Afghanistan.

Freedom is on the march. Unfortunately, it appears to be marching straight to hell.

[rodeodance]

5. this is another factor to factor in when asked--are we losing in

Irag.

[struggle4progress]

6. Bet Negroponte's boys are making money hand-over-fist do this, ...

... like the contras did ...