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Afghan Farmers Visit Colorado For Agricultural Tips

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Afghanistan Drugs, Colorado Agriculture, Colorado State University, Opium, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Agriculture, Colorado, Denver News

FORT COLLINS -- If the United States really wants to stabilize Afghanistan, say six Afghans visiting Colorado farms, then it should focus more on buil...

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Taliban: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them!

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Hamid Karzai, Cia, Taliban, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

Afghanistan is not Iraq. Unlike the Sunni Awakening, when Iraqi tribe members took up arms against al-Qaeda and foreign insurgents, the Taliban are an integral part of Afghanistan, not foreign fighters.

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The CIA, The Brothers Karzai and Spinning our COIN Wheels

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Durgs, Nato, Coin, Cia, Poppy, Afghanistan, Opium, Andew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.

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Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium, and Taliban

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Nato, Taliban, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, World News

Why isn't Mr. Karzai being held responsible for this blatant act of election fraud? And who can guarantee that a repeat of the fraud won't happen? Or that all hell won't break loose during the run-off?

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The United States Must Stay in Afghanistan

Sam Sedaei | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Nato, George W. Bush, President Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Iraq, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan Exit Strategy, War in Afghanistan, World News

As President Obama is getting ready to live up to his promise, renew American efforts in Afghanistan and make a number of critical decisions regarding an increase of troops, an ever-growing chorus of liberals is pressuring him to abandon Afghanistan and withdraw without any regards to what will happen next.

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Strategic Bombing, Karzai, M1117, Sheriff of Nottingham, Mraps, Poppy, Afghanistan, Robin Hood, President Obama, Yugoslavia, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Iraq War, Afghan Poppy Crop, Humvees, Michael Brogin, Iraq, Opium, Belgrade, World News

I would like to propose that we consider another strategy -- strategic bombing. Take poppy fields, for example ... For once, we could be using our billion dollar bombers on billion dollar targets.

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Taliban's Diverse Funding Might Make It Impossible To Restrict Cash Flow

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Kabul, Cia, Black List, Taxes, Pakistan, Gen. McChrystal, Obama, Iraq, Treasury Blacklists, CIA Blacklists, Afghanistan War, Pakistan Military, Donations, Iran, Nato, Black Listed, Mcchrystal, Funding, U.N., Opium, Iraq War, Taliban, Afghanistan, Un, Insurgency, Donors, Politics News

KABUL -- The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, s...

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Afghanistan's Opium Boom May Be Over

Yahoo! News | VIVIENNE WALT | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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Could Afghanistan's opium boom be over? Perhaps. According to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium cultivation has...

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Opium-Drenched Wood Seized At O'Hare

AP | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Opium Wood Chips, Opium Trafficking, Opium, O'hare Opium Bust, Chicago News

A drug-sniffing dog named Rambo has uncovered more than 10 pounds of opium-saturated wood chips and leaves in a package at Chicago's O'Hare Internatio...

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Afghanistan Elections Could Hinge On Provincial Poppy Production

The Washington Post | Pamela Constable | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Sell Poppies, Poppy, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Opium, Elections in Afghanistan, Afghan Elections, Poppies, Make Opium, Opium Production, Drug War Afghanistan, Drugs Afghanistan, Opium, National Elections Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, Faizabad, Poppy Fields, World News

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- The economic fortunes of Badakhshan province, a remote and wildly beautiful corner of far northeastern Afghanistan, have rise...

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Obama's Defense Budget Cut: A Step in the Right Direction

Sam Sedaei | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, George Bush, War on Terror, Afghanistan, William J. Lynn III, Guantanamo, Democracy, Barack Obama, Islamo-Fascism, Rendition, Politics, Politics News, Blackwater, Abu Gharib, Defense Spending, Iraq, Opium, Torture, World News

The United States can strengthen its security much more effectively by reallocating billions of dollars of defense spending towards other initiatives.

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Rangoon Raids Yield 28 Kilograms Of Heroin

Irrawaddy.org | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Poppy, Myanmar, Drug Raid, Burma, Rangoon, Kota Tegap, Drugs, Heroin, Golden Triangle, Narcotics, Opium, Asia, World News

Police and customs officers in Rangoon have confirmed that a special anti-narcotics task force has seized substantial quantities of heroin in a series...

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Gossip Girl Goes Over to the Dark Side (Again)

Disgrasian | Posted 01.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Stereotypes, Chuck Bass, Tokenism, Ethnicity, Asian Americans, Buffoonery, Gossip Girl, Racial Stereotypes, The CW, I Hate Gossip Girl, Opium, Gossip Girl Season 2, Entertainment News

Season 2's "White Party," is a fitting metaphor for what Gossip Girl really is pretty, rich white people trapped in a particular ring of hell where life is one neverending party.

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Mumbai Attacks Point to Needed U.S. Policy Shift

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Bush gave Musharraf $10 billion in arms to help the Americans fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Musharraf diverted the money to bolster the permanent face off against India and Indian-controlled Kashmir.

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Al-Qaeda's Drug Trade Keeps Them Afloat During The Economic Crisis

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Islamic Extremists, Islamic Radicalism, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Opium, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Poverty, Politics News

CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida, which gets its money from the drug trade in Afghanistan and sympathizers in the oil-rich Gulf states, is likely to esca...

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Afghanistan: What's Going On?

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Afghanistan, War on Drugs, Terrorism, Taliban, Opium, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Remember that place -- Afghanistan? We don't hear about it too much from our trusted names in news. I'm pretty sure Ruben Studdard is getting more airtime than Afghanistan.

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The Year of the Taliban

Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, War on Terror, Isaf, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nato, Taliban, Afghanistan War, War in Afghanistan, Terrorism, Opium, Politics News

Since the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban have been getting stronger day by day. Now midway into 2008, all indications lead us to believe that the balance seems to be tilting in their favor.

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Newsweek: Afghan Farmers Forced To Sell Their Daughters To Pay Loans

Newsweek | Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau | Posted 04.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Poor Afghan Farmers, Afghanistan War, Warwire, Opium Brides, Opium, Afghanistan, Afghan Brides Sold, Home News

Khalida's father says she's 9--or maybe 10. As much as Sayed Shah loves his 10 children, the functionally illiterate Afghan farmer can't keep track of...

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