War
on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting
lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan
Date:
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:22:47 -0600
Nothing
changed since Vietnam. Drug farms in Nicaragua, Mexico and Central America not
enough. The world is not enough…
http://www.naturalnews.com/034289_Afghanistan_opium_trade.html
War
on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting
lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan
Wednesday,
November 16, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews)
Afghanistan
is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today,
cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may
shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with
guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect
this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and
various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme.
Prior
to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world
player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and
pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively
destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful
plant, as was reported by thePittsburgh
Post-Gazetteon
February 16, 2001, in a piece entitledNation's opium production virtually wiped
out(http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...).
But
after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and
began facilitating the reinstatement of the country's poppy industry. According
to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased
by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the
direction of then-President George W. Bush
(http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-ma...).
CIA
responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11 More
recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan
President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least
eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai
was a crucial player in reinstating the country's opium drug trade, known as
Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes.
(http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-af...).
"The
Golden Crescent drug trade, (also known
as the GOD trade: Gold Oil and Drugs) launched by the CIA in the early
1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation
forces and the British military," wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a
2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA
payroll. "The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband
are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate
interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan"
(http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A...).
But
the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American
public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming
that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather
than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential
"security risk" -- and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard
blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban,
rather than the CIA and other foreign interests.
You
can watch that clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...
So
while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year
by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while
cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the
US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in
Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade.
Something
is terribly wrong with this picture.
Sources
for this article include:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...
www.GuardDogBooks.com
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