Friday, November 19, 2004

Afghan Opium Cultivation Reaches Record High – UN

USA management team reaches target with only tens of thousands of Afghan casualties!

"BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Afghanistan's opium cultivation jumped 64 percent to a record 324,000 acres this year and drug exports now account for more than 60 percent of the economy, the United Nations drugs office said Thursday.


"'This year Afghanistan has established a double record – the highest drug cultivation in the country's history, and the largest in the world,' Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told a news briefing."
Source: Yahoo News

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