they really didnt its just the cia want you to believe they did india's cricketers are actually all feds
I knew it was too good to be true. To be fair, I’d heard the rumour about the Indian cricketers all being feds - and the CIA wanting to trick society into believing that England were the top Test team in the world - before. I just didn’t want to believe it. Now that you’ve confirmed it, however, I can no longer live in denial. What a terrible, terrible downer. I’m left wondering if cricket even exists.
the cia cut of peoples balls in order to get them in the right frame of mind for the most boring sport ever invented, cricket. its even more boring than curling
I must admit, after such a one sided series I did wonder if external forces were involved in the result. Apart from the obvious candidates CIA, FBI etc, was there a more sinister culprit ? Mick, over to you....
Afghanistan has a long and troubled history with the opium poppy, beginning in 1979 during the Soviet invasion. This cash crop is used in manufacturing heroin, as well as narcotic pain relievers such as, morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone. What began as a means of financing a resistance to the Soviets, grew into a widespread practice of making easy money. This continued until July of 2000, when Taliban leader Mohammed Omar declared the cultivation of opium un-Islamic, and banned production. After the ban, Afghanistan's total production dropped 91% from 82,172 hectares in 2000, to only 7,606 hectares in 2001. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, after the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan now accounts for 93% of world's total opium production. Production spiked from 7,606 hectares in 2001, to 193,000 hectares in 2007. Helmand province in the south of Afghanistan, an area roughly about the size of West Virginia, now produces 50% of the world's opium alone. The Taliban's ban on farming the opium poppy before the US invasion was so effective, that Helmand province recorded no opium cultivation in the 2001. The previous year it had been the highest producing province, and currently is again. When these statistics are combined with news of the Afghan government's involvement and US aid to opium growers, the implications are shocking. In an article for The New York Times, Former U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Thomas Schweich reported that Hamid Karzai's government was complicit in protecting opium cultivation in Afghanistan. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghanistan's president, has been accused by many of being deeply involved in the opium trade. James Risen of The New York Times wrote an article entitled "Reports Link Karzai's Brother To Afghanistan Heroin Trade", which sheds light on this relationship between Ahmed Karzai and the manufacture of opium and its derivatives. Another report by Dexter Flikins, Mark Mazzetti, and James Risen reveals even more. This article titled "Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A." reveals ties between Ahmed Karzai and the CIA. There is now information that the CIA has a suspected drug lord on their payroll. These last two developments coupled with the following piece of information, makes this situation all the more troubling. In an interview with Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera about opium growers, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Christmas of the 3/6 Marines, told Mr. Rivera that "we provide them security, we're providing them resources, and we're providing them with alternatives". He does say they are giving them alternatives, but later goes on to admit that there is no incentive for the growers to change crops because the profits from the opium are so high. Afghanistan, with it's violent history will probably remain in turmoil for quite a few more years, and opium doesn't appear to be going anywhere either. It just seems a bit odd that after US forces entered Afghanistan, the opium trade has spiked out of control
from the LA TIMES: 1-The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency have concluded that the amount of drug money flowing to the Taliban in Afghanistan is far lower than widely estimated, according to a Senate report. 2. Al Qaeda's dependence on drug money is even less, according to the report by the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which found that "there is no evidence that any significant amount of the drug proceeds go to Al Qaeda." 3. In one of its most disconcerting conclusions, the Senate report says the United States contributed to the resurgent drug trade after the Sept. 11 attacks by backing warlords who derived income from the flow of illegal drugs. The CIA and U.S. Special Forces put such warlords on their payroll during the drive to overthrow the Taliban regime in late 2001. 4. These warlords later traded on their stature as U.S. allies to take senior positions in the new Afghan government, laying the groundwork for the corrupt nexus between drugs and authority that pervades the power structure today," the report says. 5. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government has been stained by allegations of corruption and connections to drug trafficking. Still, Karzai is widely expected to be reelected.
Is this meant to make the taliban good guys? They got rid of heroin?? I wonder how they managed to get opium production down so much so fast? Many other governments have tried to do this? I doubt it was by reasoning with the cultivators, more likely they tortured and murdered the farmers until noone in afghanistan dared produce opium.
The rest of the African nations are on good terms with Mugabe so they will not sanction any actions against him. You need to get out more.
The taliban are a bunch of extremist ****s who are stuck in the 1800's, but they will fight to the death to defend their land, as all previous generations of Afganis have. History shows that you cannot win in Afganistan, Genghis Khan and even Alexander the great couldnt take it, the Russians couldnt take it. The taliban is irrelevant, if the taliban were in some other country that didnt produce 93% of the worlds opium and didnt have geographical significance in the control of oil flow the most of us would never have heard of them. I can assure you there are 100 times far greater tragedies going on in the world than the taliban and there extremist views, but you dont see America anywhere near them or even mention them. What some people need to understand is war is profit, no profit, no gain, no war. The country of America is having the hole ripped out of it and you might be thinking how can they be making money if the economy is in such bad nick. The money is going into the private sector, the oil and arms companies owned by those with the real power, its the military industrial complex. http://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/what-is-the-military-industrial-complex.asp
I see that literacy is a problem on these fora The point was in response to idiots asserting that the taliban made money from drugs yet there is evidence, from america itself, that says otherwise this wasnt about who is good or bad
thats right soldier do as your told yours not to reason why and all that...... it is now liberal sheeite to see things for what they actually maybe, rather than what certain people say it is? you were a soldier right?
How many times do you need to be told you thick ****? I actually work somewhere which allows me to see FIRST HAND the Int Reps coming back from theatre and it's there in black and white that they're using the proceeds from dealing opium to purchase weapons and to pay their fighters. I will reiterate that again, I see them FIRST HAND, not some pish which can be derived from the internet. Now bore off
