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Article: As Afghan opium harvest declines, growing evidence of drug cartels; Afghan opium paradox: Harvest falls, cartels thrive
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- International Herald Tribune
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- September 3, 2009
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Richard A Oppel Jr
International Herald Tribune
09-03-2009
As Afghan opium harvest declines, growing evidence of drug cartels; Afghan opium paradox: Harvest falls, cartels thrive
Byline: Richard A Oppel Jr
Type: News
While U.N. officials suggested that some opium-trafficking guerrillas were now less focused on Taliban ideology, they also reported that perhaps more than 10,000 tons of illegal opium was now secretly stockpiled.
Though the Afghan opium harvest has declined for the second consecutive year, a new United Nations report says, there is growing evidence that some Afghan insurgent forces are becoming "narco- cartels" -- similar to anti-government guerrilla groups in Colombia - - that ...