Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: L'Afghanistan inonda l'Europa di eroina

www.telegraph.co.uk
 
Sunday 2 November 2003
On Europe's new drugs border, a tide of heroin floods through 
Tajikistan 
(Filed: 02/11/2003) 
Drugs from Afghanistan are pouring through Central Asia on their 
way to Britain, the UN said last week. Tom Parfitt reports from 
Tajikistan 
Hunched over his walkie-talkie at a dusty command post near the 
border with Afghanistan, the Tajik soldier shouted in frustration: 
"Where are you? What can you see?"
 
[[Picture] An Afghan farmer works on a poppy field in the Jurum
district of Badakhshan province ]
In reply came a garbled tirade, distorted by static. "It's no 
good," said the soldier. "I can't understand a thing."
Unable to contact their base for reinforcements, the soldiers soon 
gave up the chase for a gang of heroin traders crossing the 
mountainous frontier from neighbouring Afghanistan.
Hampered by poor resources, border guards in this impoverished 
former Soviet state are losing the battle to stem the tide of drugs 
that bears most of the heroin reaching Britain's streets across Asia 
and Europe.
Last week, a UN report revealed that impoverished Central Asian 
states are now bearing the brunt of the burgeoning trade in Afghan 
narcotics. More than 90 per cent of heroin sold in Britain comes 
from Afghanistan, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime 
(UNODC).
"There is a palpable risk that Afghanistan will again turn into a 
failed state, this time in the hands of drugs cartels and 
narco-terrorists," said the UN anti-drugs chief Antonio Maria Costa.
Heroin is pouring through Tajikistan, the poorest country in the 
former Soviet Union, because anti-terrorism operations in southern 
Afghanistan make it difficult for smugglers to cross into Pakistan 
and Iran.
More than 10,000 Russian border guards and 3,500 Tajik guards are 
stationed on the porous 800-mile southern border with Afghanistan. 
"We are shielding the world from Afghan heroin," said Rustam 
Nazarov, a general drafted in to head Tajikistan's UN-backed Drug 
Control Agency.
On the ground, however, reality has bitten. "It's impossible for us 
to destroy this trade," admitted Col Saidato Merzoev, who commands a 
force of about 700 Tajik border guards at Shurobod near the Afghan 
frontier.
In one recent operation, his guards pounced on a gang of drug 
traffickers in a stony gully near the Pyandzh river, which marks the 
frontier with Afghanistan. Acting on a tip-off, a unit of 30 men 
trekked into the barren mountains and lay in wait. "We saw the 
criminals come up though the valley and stop to light a fire," 
recalled the colonel, a brawny man in striped T-shirt and army 
fatigues. "Then we attacked."
Two Afghans were captured in the ensuing battle; the rest fled into 
the night behind a barrage of automatic gunfire. The border guards 
found a satchel which had been tossed aside, containing 44 pounds of 
pure heroin. While that operation was a success, the contents of the 
satchel were a tiny loss for the traffickers. Although in the first 
nine months of this year, drug control forces seized 4.4 tons of 
heroin - more than double their haul for the same period last year - 
it is still just one tenth of the total amount being smuggled, law 
enforcement officials believe.
Cultivation of opium poppies, the raw material for heroin, was 
banned in Afghanistan by the Taliban, but production has rocketed 
since the regime was driven from power. Smuggling is widespread. In 
one recent incident, a ministry of health official carrying 12 
pounds of heroin injected into 52 lemons was intercepted trying to 
fly out of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
Gen Nazarov warned the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and his 
international backers not to slacken their efforts to stamp out the 
trade in narcotics. "There is a direct link between drugs, extremism 
and terrorist organisations such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda," he 
told The Sunday Telegraph. "When US forces entered Afghanistan they 
saw these problems in isolation. Now we are paying the price."
The smugglers use satellite telephones to co-ordinate forays across 
the border from Afghanistan, linking up with criminal gangs in 
Tajikistan. Those groups then co-operate with Russian mafia who 
maintain the supply to addicts in Europe. Britain has committed £70 
million to eradicating Afghan drug production over the next three 
years but Bill Rammell, a Foreign Office minister, admitted this 
week that the task would be "a long haul". 
Farmers can earn up to 40 times more growing opium than by growing 
wheat. Cash from drug production and smuggling is a key source of 
income for the warlords who still control large swathes of the 
country, and accounts for about half of Afghanistan's GDP, the UNODC 
warned. 
Heroin and methadone are refined from raw opium at laboratories in 
the Afghan mountains, then carried into Central Asia via myriad 
routes - on foot, on horseback, packed into the tyres of vehicles or 
smuggled on trains. It is hardly surprising that the guards struggle 
to stop the trafficking.
"They are doing the best they can but they can't intercept 
everybody," said one senior British diplomat in Dushanbe. "You'd 
need a border post every 50 yards."
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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Cio' che i paesi del terzo mondo quali Afghanistan (ma anche Colombia
e altri) conducono contro le societa' dei paesi civilizzati e'
una vera e propria guerra chimica che produce vittime e disgregazione
sociale.
I popoli affamati imparino a coltivare grano e patate, basta con il
buonismo.
Se a loro conviene di piu' coltivare i papaveri da oppio, a noi
Occidentali converrebbe di piu' inondare l'Afghanistan con il napalm.
Padania libera !
La capitale e' la gran Milàn !
Los von Rom !
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Per non dimenticare: tra il 1987 e il 1994, la polizia di stato
italiana incaricata di rapinare banche, uffici postali, stazioni di
servizio e supermercati ha ucciso a Bologna 24 persone ferendone piu'
di 100. Per contro, i reati che rimangono impuniti sono l'80.4% su
scala regionale (dato riferito all'Emilia-Romagna) e l'82% su scala
nazionale. Per il conseguimento di tali risultati degni di una
satrapia islamica, lo stato italiano estorce a noi cittadini del Nord
fino al 72% del reddito in tasse.
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"Messaggio inviato con l'ennesimo alimentatore di ricambio" :-(

 (Filed: 02/11/2003) 
Ma come? Non siamo andati li ha ditruggere il dominio terroristico narcotrafficante talebano?
L'impero del male... lo stato canaglia...
Gli USA non hanno clusterbombizzato e napalizzato le piantagioni di papavero? 
Per tagliare a BinLaden i fondi, le risorse economiche e il modo di procurarsi armi... 
lo dicevano tutti i giornali dal primo giorno della campagna...
Evidentemente l'*oro bianco* interessa piu' a noi potenze occidentali, che ai terroristi...


I think it's a good thing...
After the war, the drug
Bye
Stefano


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