[lit-ideas] Re: Heroin bust
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:38:22 -0700
Veronica Caley wrote
On Friday morning at 9 AM Eastern Standard Time I heard a report on
BBC World Service that U.S. and Russian forces broke up a heroin
storage and processing plant in Afghanistan near the Pakistani
border. I would like to know if anyone watching U.S. news outlets in
any form heard, read or have seen the same. According to the BBC, the
stuff was worth .5 billion U.S. dollars. I consider this
extraordinary news and yet I heard or read nothing about it anywhere
else. Mostly because of American and Russian joint military operation.
Well, there's this, but the value of the haul seems to have shrunk a bit
in the telling.
'It involved raids on four laboratories associated with a significant
dugs (sic) trafficker in the province. Approximately one metric ton of
heroin worth $250 million was seized, along with a smaller quantity of
opium and items used in drug production, U.S. authorities said.'
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/29/afghanistan.drug.bust/index.html
Robert Paul
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