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WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs says. The World Drug Report says more than 90% of illegal opium, which is used to make heroin, comes from Afghanistan. It says cultivation of opium popp.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 12:59pm neoform

Independent -- Afghan opium production rose to record levels yet again last year, the US State Department has said, in what has become an annual announcement of failure. Despite a programme to wipe out Afghan opium production by the Americans, the British and the gov.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 6:07pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A "cancer of insurgency" in southern Afghanistan could drive the 2007 opium poppy harvest to record levels, the U.N. drug agency chief said Monday. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime predicted that last year's harvest record would be broken by an incre.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Dec 10, 2006 @ 10:32pm neoform

Lexington Herald-Leader -- The top U.S. anti-drug official said Saturday that Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year, a measure likely to anger farmers and scare Afghans unfamiliar with weed killers... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Dec 4, 2006 @ 11:26am neoform

MSNBC -- Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday... Read More