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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (516)	9/6/2006 10:49:32 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) of 20106

Afghanistan's opium babies english.aljazeera.net Three-month-old Kheyamadin is a docile baby. Lying cocooned in the traditional Afghan Turkmen bright hues of tight silk swaddling clothes, he rarely cries. But the reason for his calm demeanour is not a pacifier, toy or milk - it is opium. "I feed him opium, [otherwise] he cries all the time," says his 25-year-old mother Bolde Jamalgate as she holds him. The mother of four refuses to look up or unveil herself from her pristine white burqa. *** Feeding small children opium is a practice which stems back centuries in Afghanistan, particularly among Ismaili communities in the northeastern province of Badakhshan and Turkmen families in the north of the country.

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