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Lord Herbert
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"The latest drug seizures in NZ and here involved massive amounts of heroin from the fields of Afghanistan, just a small part of the $6 billion cash crop that finances Taliban atrocities.
The Melbourne raids led to the arrest of Ali Aydin, Mohammad Osman, Rami Margus, Kazem Hamad, Mohammed Baset Wahab and Mohammad Danesh.
Now, at the risk of sounding a fraction Islamophobic, those names do seem rather Islamic and in particular Afghani, even more particularly, Taliban. Of course our soft Left legal system will ensure they are all back home planting poppies in no time or happily on wefare here.
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"Failing to learn from the Russian experiment, the Yanks’ terms of engagement included leaving the heroin trade in place... and that seems rather odd because all wars involve targeting of supply routes and eliminating means of financing. In this case it is the Taliban’s only means of financing and one that constitutes over 90 per cent of the world’s heroin trade. More than 200 ton of the stuff is exported through Pakistan every year.
From Pakistan the heroin traverses the Balkan route to Iran, Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria, across South-East Europe to the Western European market, with an annual street value of some $20 billion.
The northern route runs mainly through Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan and to Russia. The size of that market is estimated to total $13 billion in street value per year. The Australian market is supplied through West Asia and is extremely valuable as it commands three times the street price of elsewhere in the world (thus the explosion of cheap, locally manufactured, hideous methamphetamine, "ice")".
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