In the wake of the 2001 US bombing of Afghanistan, the British
government of Tony Blair was entrusted by the G-8 Group of leading
industrial nations to carry out a drug eradication program, which would,
in theory, allow Afghan farmers to switch out of poppy cultivation into
alternative crops. The British were working out of Kabul in close
liaison with the US DEA’s “Operation Containment”.
The UK sponsored crop eradication program is an obvious smokescreen.
Since October 2001, opium poppy cultivation has skyrocketed. The
presence of occupation forces in Afghanistan did not result in the
eradication of poppy cultivation. Quite the opposite.
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