Comments on: Bush’s ‘new’ Iraq now grows opium, like Bush’s ‘new’ Afghanistan http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/05/23/bushs-new-iraq-now-grows-opium-like-bushs-new-afghanistan/ My diary on peace and wars, arts, sciences, politics, the fight for economic and social justice, the environment, and more. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/05/23/bushs-new-iraq-now-grows-opium-like-bushs-new-afghanistan/#comment-6809 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:21:10 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/05/23/bushs-new-iraq-now-grows-opium-like-bushs-new-afghanistan/#comment-6809 Vice And Victory April 19, 2009: The war in Afghanistan is having a growing impact on Iraq. This is in the form of a growing quantity of heroin and opium from Afghanistan. Despite the prevalence of Islamic conservatives in the Persian Gulf, there is also a lot of oil money, and young men without jobs. These men have money from their families, are bored, and eager customers for drugs from Afghanistan, and synthetic drugs (prescription and non-prescription) from the West. Vice, in general, has returned to Baghdad. No more religious vigilantes attacking liquor stores or video shops. The night clubs are open again, and prostitution flourishes along with gambling and all manner of depravity. http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20090419.aspx Vice And Victory

April 19, 2009: The war in Afghanistan is having a growing impact on Iraq. This is in the form of a growing quantity of heroin and opium from Afghanistan. Despite the prevalence of Islamic conservatives in the Persian Gulf, there is also a lot of oil money, and young men without jobs. These men have money from their families, are bored, and eager customers for drugs from Afghanistan, and synthetic drugs (prescription and non-prescription) from the West. Vice, in general, has returned to Baghdad. No more religious vigilantes attacking liquor stores or video shops. The night clubs are open again, and prostitution flourishes along with gambling and all manner of depravity.

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20090419.aspx

]]> by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/05/23/bushs-new-iraq-now-grows-opium-like-bushs-new-afghanistan/#comment-4151 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:52:53 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/05/23/bushs-new-iraq-now-grows-opium-like-bushs-new-afghanistan/#comment-4151 Iraq becoming major hub for international narcotics smuggling By Agence France Presse (AFP) Monday, July 07, 2008 Iraq becoming major hub for international narcotics smuggling Salam Faraj Agence France Presse BAGHDAD: War-torn Iraq is emerging as a key conduit in the global drugs trade, as criminal gangs exploit its porous border with Iran to channel their illicit goods to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The Iraqi authorities say that since the 2003 US-led invasion the trade in illegal opiates, cannabis and synthetic pharmaceuticals has risen steadily http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=93836 Iraq becoming major hub for international narcotics smuggling
By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Monday, July 07, 2008

Iraq becoming major hub for international narcotics smuggling

Salam Faraj

Agence France Presse

BAGHDAD: War-torn Iraq is emerging as a key conduit in the global drugs trade, as criminal gangs exploit its porous border with Iran to channel their illicit goods to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The Iraqi authorities say that since the 2003 US-led invasion the trade in illegal opiates, cannabis and synthetic pharmaceuticals has risen steadily

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=93836

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