Comments on: Afghan opium farmers follow the money http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/04/24/afghan-opium-farmers-follow-the-money/ Perspectives on Pakistan Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: david http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/04/24/afghan-opium-farmers-follow-the-money/#comment-318 david Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:55:05 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/04/24/afghan-opium-farmers-follow-the-money/#comment-318 Pakistan benefits directly from the narcotics trade as most of the opium and heroine passes across the Pakistani border and is then shipped to the West from Pakistani ports. Along the way, Pakistani officials take their cut. Some of this money is used to train Pakistani terrorists, The US must use all means necessary to stop this trade which is killing thousands of Americans each month. The US should both destroy the Afghan poppy fields and the trade routes into and out of Pakistan. Pakistan benefits directly from the narcotics trade as most of the opium and heroine passes across the Pakistani border and is then shipped to the West from Pakistani ports. Along the way, Pakistani officials take their cut. Some of this money is used to train Pakistani terrorists,

The US must use all means necessary to stop this trade which is killing thousands of Americans each month. The US should both destroy the Afghan poppy fields and the trade routes into and out of Pakistan.

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