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To: Alias Shrugged who wrote (123523)9/18/2001 9:07:29 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Respond to of 436258
 
I'm pretty sure the correct figure for aid is $100 million. Coby was caught in a courtroom downdraft. -g-



To: Alias Shrugged who wrote (123523)9/18/2001 9:09:14 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
maybe we should just spray paraquat on their marijuana fields and weed killer on their poppies.

Exports - commodities: opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems

Illicit drugs: world's largest illicit opium producer, surpassing Burma (potential production in 1999 - 1,670 metric tons; cultivation in 1999 - 51,500 hectares, a 23% increase over 1998); a major source of hashish; increasing number of heroin-processing laboratories being set up in the country; major political factions in the country profit from drug trade