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Saturday, January 22, 2005
About That HeroinEarly last month, which for some reason feels like about 2 years ago, there was a flurry of reports about Bin Laden and his people financing their evil deeds with heroin. No doubt that's true. But anyone with power in Afghanistan has probably done the same thing. Just because a warlord is on our side doesn't mean he keeps out of the lucrative Afghan trade in poppies that leads to cheap and dangerous junk on the streets of San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Manhattan. President Reagan once held up a photo of some Sandinistas loading coke onto a plane during a televsied speech. But it was his own CIA-trained army, the contras, who were flooding American markets with cheap coke. This excellent column connects the dots between the ugly story uncovered by Gary Webb and the heroin trade flourishing in Afghanistan.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
5:16 PM
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