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A look at poppy production in southern Afghanistan. Helmand province, where 4000 U.S. Marines launched a major anti-Taliban offensive Thursday, is the world's largest cultivator of opium poppies — the crop used to make heroin. ...
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US Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several ...
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Poppy: Life Death and Addiction Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade by Australian freelance writer Gregor Salmon digs into the opium trade in Afghanistan to find the inside story. The farmer's survival. The Taliban's fight. ...
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The Taliban helps farmers with the production of the poppy crop, providing farming services and assistance. One way that the United States could return Afghanistan to the traditional crops that were being grown in 2001, is to start a ...
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The Taliban engage in extortion and taxation of Afghan poppy farmers. Taxation comes at a minimum of 10 percent. The Taliban are believed to have been enjoying a take of as much as $300 million a year from Afghanistan's opium trade. ...