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Article: World datelines
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2009
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Afghanistan: Drugs
KABUL -- U.S. Marines and Afghan forces have found and destroyed
hundreds of tons of poppy seeds, opium and heroin in southern
Afghanistan this month in raids that a top American official said
show the new U.S. counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan is
working.
U.S. and NATO troops are attacking drug warehouses in Afghanistan
for the first time this year, a new strategy to counter the
country's booming opium poppy and heroin trade. NATO defense
ministers approved the targeted drug raids late last year, saying
the link between Taliban insurgents and drug barons was clear.
Egypt: Spy charges
CAIRO -- Egypt's prosecutor general on Sunday officially charged
26 suspects, ...