For no reason. Why are the scum even still in Afganistan? Not that there was ever a valid reason to be there in the first place. Thats right, heroin. In 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, said in an interview with a French publication, Le Nouvel Observateur, that the US intervention in the Afghan-Soviet war did not begin in the 1980s, but that, “it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul,” which precipitated the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan. “Before 1979 Pakistan and Afghanistan exported very little heroin to the West,” but by 1981, “trucks from the Pakistan army’s National Logistics Cell arriving with CIA arms from Karachi often returned loaded with heroin – protected by ISI papers freeing them from police search.” This change occurred in 1981 when then CIA Director William Casey, Prince Turki bin Faisal of Saudi intelligence and the ISI worked together to create a foreign legion of jihadi Muslims or so-called Arab Afghans. More than 100,000 Islamic militants were trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992 in camps overseen by the CIA and MI6. The SAS trained future Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts while their leaders were trained at a CIA camp in Virginia. Further, “CIA aid was funneled through General Zia and the ISI in Pakistan.” In the mid-1990s, an obscure group of “Pashtun country folk” had become a powerful military and political force in Afghanistan, known as the Taliban. During that same time the Taliban acquired contacts with the ISI, often referred to as Pakistan’s “shadow government.” In 1995, the ISI was actively aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan’s civil war against the warlords that controlled the country. In addition, just as in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the previous decade, the ISI looked to Saudi intelligence to provide the funding for the Taliban, and the ties between the ISI and Saudi intelligence grew much closer. The Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan was also aided by the CIA, which worked with the Pakistani ISI. A few years after the Taliban came to power they began a campaign to eradicate Afghanistan’s opium crops, and the success of Afghanistans 2000 drug eradication program under the Taliban government was recognized by the United Nations as a monumental feat, in that no other country was able to implement a comparable program. In October of 2001, the UN acknowledged that the Taliban reduced opium production in Afghanistan from 3300 tons in 2000 to 185 tons in 2001. In June of 2001, a few months before 9/11, it was reported that a “recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan” was announced by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, which made the United States the main sponsor of the Taliban. Drug trafficking is the largest global commodity in profits after the oil and arms trade, consequently, immediately following the October 2001 invasion opium markets were restored. Opium prices spiraled. By early 2002, the domestic price of opium in Afghanistan was almost 10 times higher than in 2000. The Anglo-American invasion of Afghanistan successfully restored the drug trade. The Guardian reported that, “In 2007 Afghanistan had more land growing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined.” In 2005 it was reported by the Independent that Afghanistan’s Interior Minister had resigned, “amid reports he had quit because of the involvement of senior government officials in the illegal drug trade.” He had "been outspoken over the involvement of officials in the drug trade and is believed to have had differences with President Karzai over the appointment of Provincial officials.” In 2006, the Independent reported that, “British intelligence officers and military commanders accused the US of undermining British policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, after the sacking of a key British ally in the Afghan province of Helmand.” The British “blamed pressure from the CIA for President Hamid Karzai's decision to dismiss Mohammed Daud as governor of Helmand.” Daud was seen as a key player in Britain's anti-drugs campaign in Helmand,” and was fired after Hamid Karzai, “listened to advice from ‘other powerful Western players’.” Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, wrote in a 2007 article in the UK Daily Mail, that what has been achieved in Afghanistan is “the highest harvests of opium the world has ever seen." Murray elaborated that, “Our economic achievement in Afghanistan goes well beyond the simple production of raw opium. In fact Afghanistan no longer exports much raw opium at all. It has succeeded in what our international aid efforts urge every developing country to do. Afghanistan has gone into manufacturing and 'value-added' operations.” This means that Afghanistan “now exports not opium, but heroin. Opium is converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in kitchens but in factories. Millions of gallons of the chemicals needed for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads, improved by American aid, with NATO troops.” Murray stated that, “Our only real achievement to date is falling street prices for heroin in London.” The Hindu reported in 2008 that, “90 per cent of the heroin sold in Russia comes from Afghanistan,” and Putin was quoted as saying, “Unfortunately, they (NATO) are doing nothing to reduce the narcotic threat from Afghanistan even a tiny bit,” and that the coalition forces were “sitting back and watching caravans haul drugs across Afghanistan to the former Soviet Union and Europe.” The article then reported that, “according to unconfirmed reports the U.S. military transport aviation is used for the delivery of drugs from Afghanistan to the American airbases, Ganci in Kyrgyzstan and Incirlik in Turkey,” and that, “It has been reported earlier that the CIA is involved in Afghanistan’s opium production, or is at least protecting it.” One Russian journalist quoted anonymous Afghan officials as saying, “85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and southeastern provinces are shipped abroad by U.S. aviation.” All the while, the sheep continue to graze away in the fenced field known as society, playing by the rules and abiding the laws written by murdering hypocrites. Revolution anyone?
The joke is the war in Afghanistan will end with power being handed back to the Taliban by American and their cronies.
There is no war in Afganistan, US/British presence will probably be permenant, even if reduced over time, and the Karzai government was installed by them anyway.
Sickening. 9 children and 3 women slaughtered for no reason and its termed as 'regrettable' by the US government. They should behead the soldier and those responsible in the chain of command as that is the law of the law they are in, just as the saying "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", or doesn't that apply to the UK/US????
I just don't find the deaths of children funny having lost young family members myself. But I guess its funny to people who sit behind a keyboard all day in a darkened room pretending to be heros.
**** you ya dick, that was nothing to do with the dead kids but it was to do with the excuse of "womens" rights when invading My next post was a joke
No, but I bet your mom got mowed down by a gang of inbreds which resulted in a **** like you after 9 months.
You sick **** 3 mothers died in that attack Sitting there, in your semen stained underwear, laughing at them.... Sickening
