AFGHANISTAN: Government warns of possible poppy crop spraying - Here comes the defoliant

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/52be6f726b83c13d72b098c292febb74.htm

KABUL, 18 December (IRIN) - In a bid to curb poppy cultivation, the government of Afghanistan has warned farmers that it could spray poppy fields if other ways are not successful.

This year, only 10 percent of the total 165,000 ha under cultivation was eradicated, while the total area planted was up 59 percent compared to 2005. The impoverished Central Asian state produces more than 90 percent of the world opium, according to Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN).

"We could use ground spray when it's needed," said Minister for Counter Narcotics Habibullah Qaderi in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday.

The initiative comes after John Walters, Director of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy, warned last week in Kabul that Afghanistan could turn into a narco-state unless dramatic steps were taken toward eliminating poppy cultivation. Walters called for spraying poppy cultivation in the country.

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1. How do you spell Agent Orange?? nt

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2. chemical warfare on afgani civilians

Awesome! Wow! :sarcasm:

I remember writing a story a long time ago, about a soviet battlefield
in afganistan, maybe 30 years ago, and in the story, i described how the
soviet muntions were scattered about the dead children.

Now i've lived long enough that it is my country who is poisoning the
dead children with chemical weapons its evil drugs war. Curse whoever is
behind the drugs war, curse every one of them, every single person behind it,
and involved in it, may they carry in their hearts the evil they do.

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3. Will we ever learn?

What a wonderful world it would be if we all worked together for the good of the common man! -- A world without war, without greed and without harm to the innocents.