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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (215810)1/8/2002 4:51:40 PM
From: gao seng  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Secretary of State Colin Powell gave the Taliban $43 million this May to replace the income lost to Afghani farmers as a result of the ban. Their wheat crops had failed due to the drought and they had no money from opium harvests to buy food.

-- So, we are both right.

But, I do not think it was a reward for the Taliba's efforts in the war on drugs.

The official position is that they were not cutting back.

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