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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (38501)7/28/2004 9:13:41 PM
From: Brumar89Respond to of 81568
 
I don't think so. What would have been the point, Jordan was against the war just like all the other Arab countries.



To: ChinuSFO who wrote (38501)7/28/2004 9:15:25 PM
From: zonkieRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
Afghanistan economy getting back on track thanks to Bush and Blair

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor and Andrew Clennell
28 July 2004

The opium harvest in Afghanistan this year will be one of the biggest on record, the Foreign Office said yesterday, and it has triggered a flood of heroin on Britain's streets.

The revelation will prove highly embarrassing for Tony Blair, who cited cutting the supply of heroin as one of the main reasons for the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, in addition to removing the Taliban regime and rooting out al-Qa'ida from the training camps run by Osama bin Laden.

The Taliban had cracked down on drugs cultivators but the regime's fall led to an increase in production and this year's harvest will be the largest since the invasion.
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