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A former US government point-man in the drug war in Afghanistan has accused President Hamid Karzai's government of protecting the opium trade. Thomas Schweich, who quit recently...
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- News Source: Inquirer.net | 3 months agoA former US government pointman in the drug war in Afghanistan has accused President Hamid Karzai's government of protecting the opium trade. Thomas Schweich, who quit recently as US coordinator for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan,
- News Source: The Frontier Post | 3 months agoA former US government point-man in the drug war in Afghanistan has accused President Hamid Karzai's government of protecting the opium trade. Thomas Schweich, who quit recently as US coordinator for counter-narcotics and justice reform in
- News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald | 3 months agoThe Bush administration underscored its continued support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday despite fresh allegations from a former U.S. anti-drug official that Karzai is playing both sides of the effort to combat a raging drug business.
- News Source: Press TV | 3 months agoUS obstructs Afghan anti-drug campaign' Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:51:00 A former top US official says the Pentagon and Britain commanders are obstructing attempts to eradicate the opium crop from Afghanistan. "Some of our Nato allies have resisted the anti-
- News Source: Denver Post | 3 months agoAfghanistan — Corrupt Afghan officials, a reluctant military and divisions over policy, as much as the Taliban, have contributed to a failing policy to fight narcotics in Afghanistan, a former Bush administration official writes in an article in
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 3 months agoMr Schweich says Mr Karzai seems to tolerate a certain level of corruption rather than lose power and that many of his supporters are financed by the drugs trade. Mr Schweich, one of the state department's most senior counter-narcotics officials
- News Source: Independent Bangladesh | 3 months agoSaturday, 26 July 2008 BBC Afghan President Hamid Karzai is obstructing efforts to tackle his country's drugs problem, a former US counter-narcotics official has said. Thomas Schweich said Mr Karzai had protected drug lords for political reasons and
- News Source: Gulf News | 3 months ago5 Kabul: Corruption in Afghanistan is hobbling efforts to combat the booming opium trade with powerful drug lords evading justice by simply making telephone calls to friends in high places, a United Nations official said on Monday.
- News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 3 months agoIn the article, " Is Afghanistan a Narco-State ?", former State Department antinarcotics official Thomas Schweich wrote that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been stymying US anti-opium efforts in southern Afghanistan, as many of his political
- News Source: Sacramento Bee | 3 months agoBarack Obama and John McCain say more U.S. troops should be sent to Afghanistan, and President Bush agrees. Deploying additional forces could backfire, however, if the United States and its allies don't devise a coherent strategy to defeat the
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