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Wronguy
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NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan
#6264627 - 11/09/06 09:00 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10409924
NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan
New Zealand troops in Afghanistan have destroyed a haul of opium with a potential street value of US$12 million ($18m). The almost one tonne of drugs was confiscated on November 1 by a team of Afghan National Police after they caught up with smugglers on a deserted road. The New Zealand Defence Force in Bamyan received a call from the province's governor Habibi Serabi asking if they could incinerate the drugs. Wooden pellets filled with opium were stacked on top of each other and doused in petrol before being set alight. Medical Officer Major Phil Misur, one of those involved in the drugs' destruction, said the experience was as satisfying as it was extraordinary. "Working in the burn pit surrounded by millions of dollars worth of foul smelling opium, mixed with plenty of diesel and petrol, is an experience I'll never forget," he said. Police superintendent John Kelly, from Hamilton, said he had never seen such a large quantity of drugs in 30 years of police work. Mr Kelly said: "It's certainly the biggest haul I've seen in my career and it's a bit different from the average couple of pounds of cannabis you might turn over back home." Afghanistan is the world's biggest supplier of opium with the country's southern Helmand province producing over 70 per cent of the world's total production alone, the NZDF said. The annual profit from opium of US$1.3 billion plays a significant part, the NZDF said, in the funding of the ongoing Taleban and Al Qaeda insurgency in Afghanistan.
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Wronguy]
#6265785 - 11/09/06 02:52 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I really hope the incredibly poor opium farmers were paid for the crop already. I believe they would've been...
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Wronguy]
#6265871 - 11/09/06 03:10 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I prefer to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. The title of this article should be NZ troops fail to discover the other $10 billion of opium in Afghanistan
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: SuperD]
#6266210 - 11/09/06 05:05 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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those faggots think they are cool
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Wronguy]
#6266306 - 11/09/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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that would have been a nice size pile of smack down the road :/
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Leanin]
#6266308 - 11/09/06 05:30 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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the cia is gonna be pissed when they find out...
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Wronguy]
#6267389 - 11/09/06 10:12 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bravo NZ,
Doesn't anyone here realize what the money from these plants goes towards. Being against terrorism and drugs are 2 different things. Yeah it sucks for the farmers, but how do you know that those farmers don't want to kill you?
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Ganja]
#6272689 - 11/11/06 04:46 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Working in the burn pit surrounded by millions of dollars worth of foul smelling opium, mixed with plenty of diesel and petrol, is an experience I'll never forget," he said.
hahahahah they were all fucked up as shit.... and u know they loved every minute of it...
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Ganja]
#6275530 - 11/12/06 01:57 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ganja said: Bravo NZ,
Doesn't anyone here realize what the money from these plants goes towards. Being against terrorism and drugs are 2 different things. Yeah it sucks for the farmers, but how do you know that those farmers don't want to kill you?
hey im guessing you dont realise the taliban were actually against growing opium poppies and didnt permit farmers to grow them but when your wise government sent in the troops to liberate afghanistan all of that changed.
with no taliban around to stop the farmers the started growing lots of poppies and now europe is flooded with opium
well you reap what you sow i suppose
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Ganja said: but how do you know that those farmers don't want to kill you?
and thanks for the laugh
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Spiderbaby]
#6288602 - 11/16/06 04:57 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Considering there's a huge global shortage of opiate based painkillers why the fuck are they just destroying it as if there's no legitimate use. At least some politicians are finally seeing the obvious solution..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6081162.stm
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Re: NZ troops destroy $18m of opium in Afghanistan [Re: Ganja]
#6288674 - 11/16/06 07:16 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Ganja said: Bravo NZ,
Doesn't anyone here realize what the money from these plants goes towards. Being against terrorism and drugs are 2 different things. Yeah it sucks for the farmers, but how do you know that those farmers don't want to kill you?
Alright, thanks for the propaganda speech
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