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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Blair told the Labour Party Conference in 2001, three weeks after 9/11 attacks on the US soil, that the invasion of Afghanistan would eradicate the country’s illicit drug trade.
“The arms the Taliban are buying today are paid for by the lives of young British people buying their drugs on British streets. This is another part of the regime we should destroy”, Blair told his supporters.
But after almost 11 years of failed policies, and the deaths of 414 British troopers, little has changed. Instead of destroying Afghanistan’s drug trade, the country is today responsible for 82 percent of the global production of opium, and more than 90 percent of heroin found on British streets is made from Afghan opium.
Up to 15 percent of Afghanistan Gross National Product is believed to come from drug-related exports, a business worth an estimated £1.6 billion a year. With such vast sums of money swimming around, it is little wonder that opium has led to corruption within every strata of Afghan society.
“Afghanistan never had a history of drug addiction 30 years ago,” says Abdul Gayyum, the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics, “But today we have one million addicts.”
The majority of Afghanistan’s addicts are unemployed men, often refugees returning from Iran and Pakistan. But, worryingly, the cases of addiction amongst women, young children and even babies are beginning to soar.
Children, some less than a year old, are being given opium by their mothers in order to keep them calm and sleepy so the women can work uninterrupted in jobs such as carpet weaving and basket making.
Some doctors are also adding to the addiction problem by prescribing opium for a wide range of minor illnesses such as back and head aches.
One senior official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Sunday Telegraph: “There is no silver bullet for solving Afghanistan drug culture. It will take a lot of time and money and there is no guarantee of success”.
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