Friday, August 19, 2005

A Schizophrenic War: Peace in Afghanistan Is a Boon for Drug Lords / SPIEGEL, 17 Aug 2005

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,370130,00.html
Dirk Kurbjuweit
"While the drug squads and social workers continue their desperate battle against heroin on the home front, German troops stationed in Afghanistan can do little more than stand by and watch as poppy cultivation expands dramatically. Almost 90 percent of the world's opium comes from the fields of the Hindu Kush region where the Bundeswehr is stationed."