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October 22, 2007

Legalise it ! (yet one more argument)

From the Washington Times, October 19, 2007,  p. 15:

"KABUL The top U.S. general in Afghanistan said yesterday he estimated that Afghanistan’s rampant opium poppy cultivation was funding up to 40 percent of the Taliban-led insurgency.

Gen. Dan McNeill, head of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, added he had been told by an international specialist that his figure was likely low and could reach up to 60 percent…"

Nuff said.

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