Wednesday, February 05, 2003

OPERATION RESTORE DOPE?

In Afghanistan, we helped to liberate an oppressed people and we will continue helping them secure their country.... --State of the Union address

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 4 — Afghanistan was the world's largest source of illicit opium in 2002, according to a United Nations report released on Monday, which estimates that opium revenues amounted to $1.2 billion in that country while the average daily wage was only $2 per day. --story in today's New York Times

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