Karzai denounces drug raid in Afghanistan
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Sun Oct-31-10 07:31 AM
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Karzai denounces drug raid in Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai denounced the operation last week involving U.S. forces, Russian drug agents — and Afghan police, said to have led it. Karzai denounces drug raid in Afghanistan\ By Laura King, Los Angeles Times[br />October 31, 2010 Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday denounced a large-scale drug raid in which U.S. forces and Russian drug agents took part, calling it a violation of Afghan sovereignty. The outburst marked the latest in a series of tense confrontations between the Afghan leader and his Western backers. It also signaled a degree of disarray within the Karzai administration, because Afghan counter-narcotics police took part in the operation, playing what U.S. officials described as the lead role. On Friday, Russian officials and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration disclosed the raid, which took place earlier in the week in Nangarhar province, near the border with Pakistan. The strike targeted major opium and heroin production facilities, and millions of dollars' worth of drugs were destroyed, they said. Karzai's office issued a harshly worded statement in response, describing his government as "committed to joint efforts with (the) international community against narcotics" but condemning the raid as a "blatant violation of Afghanistan's sovereignty."
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Sun Oct-31-10 07:36 AM
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1. what a clown, we've been "violating" since 2002.......!! Probably doesn't want anything
to happen to his personal poppy crop.
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Sun Oct-31-10 09:38 AM
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2. Why are we there again?
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Sun Oct-31-10 09:41 AM
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3. They must have raided his brother's farm.
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