Posted on 06/12/2014 9:54:20 AM PDT by mgist
Arnaud Aubron - Libération
Losing war on drugs: Iran is on the heroin supply route from Asia to Europe. Opiates - and cannabis - produced in Afghanistan transit through Iraq before being distributed in Europe. Their consumption is growing in Baghdad and elsewhere.
Repeat yet again. Although Washington took the lead thirty years ago in the global anti-drug war, narcotics seem to stubbornly want to surge through the wake of the American Army.
Thus, in 2001, following the prohibition of poppy cultivation by the Taliban, Afghanistan had seen its opium production fall by 185 tons... to shoot up to 3,200 tons (or a 1,700% increase) immediately after the United States' intervention, a scenario that is finding an echo today in Iraq. According to the Iranian Hamid Ghodse, President of the OICS (Organe international de contrôle des stupéfiants, an expert group headquartered in Vienna charged with applying UN conventions relating to drugs), Iraq is in the process of becoming an important transit country on the route for Afghan heroin. Opiates and cannabis produced in Afghanistan "are brought through Iraq to Jordan from where they are sent on to the European markets of the East and West," he declared during a press conference given Thursday in Vienna.
This tendency is confirmed by the rise in narcotics seizures along the Iraqi-Jordanian border the last twelve months. "This situation is made possible by the domestic situation in Iraq, where border controls have been loosened and traffickers can come through disguised as pilgrims" going to the great Shiite cities, propounded Hamid Ghodse, for whom the situation is comparable to that of most countries emerging from a conflict situation.
While drug problems have been historically unknown in Iraq (out of fear of repression striking traffickers and consumers or quite simply from lack of information), OICS has worried about the new trend since its March 2004 annual report. "Drugs have started to enter the country in huge quantities, notably through the Eastern border," with Iran, revealed Iraqi Minister of the Interior Nouri Badrane then, who worried especially about the increase in narcotics consumption among young Iraqis: "Consumption of these drugs is on the rise, due to unemployment, insecurity, and the sense of uncertainty about the future, especially among young people." A few months later, his equivalent at the Health Ministry talked about "a problem that has become endemic," submitting a number of 2,029 registered addicts.
A trend confirmed this year by Hamid Ghodse, who, on Thursday, inventoried a troubling increase in the number of addicts treated in the capital's hospitals, but also in other cities in the country. To confront the situation, Baghdad has adopted a national anti-narcotics plan. "It's urgent that the Iraqi government and the international community take the preventative measures the situation requires before it becomes worse," Hamid Ghodse concluded.
A deterioration that Washington, which for the moment has other priorities, could also pay the price for. If drug consumption by GIs is not at present the subject of any study, the highlight of the June 2004 edition of the magazine "High Times" (specializing in cannabis) was a GI in Iraq posing next to a cannabis plant. In 1971, 11% of GIs based in Vietnam declared that they consumed heroin regularly, while one in five said that they had tried it.[1] It was following their return to the United States that Nixon decided to launch his global war on drugs.
5/6/2014
ISLAMABAD: The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) says new routes for heroin smuggling are emerging through the Southwest Asian region, as the drug is being smuggled out of Afghanistan via Iran and Pakistan and then trafficked to Iraq and other countries in the Middle East.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1091348
NO BLOOD FOR HEROIN,
I wonder how many of those dreamers at the border are actually “Drug Mules”....
and obama's army.
Heroin has become a chemical weapon of mass destruction in the jihadist’s war on the “Infidel” and we have become stuck on stupid.
Make it legal.
Another article from 2006.
The Taliban, Al Qaeda, the Global Drug Trade, and Afghanistan as a Dominant Opium Source
https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/documentstore/docs09/pdf/picj/vol2/issue1/The_Taliban.pdf
It was established years ago that Al Qaeda, Taliban, and The Muslim Brotherhood are simply drug cartels.
The fact that Obama has done nothing but support and appease them is frightening. This is a MULTI TRILLION cash industry, and the cartels could not exist without government complicity. When an anti cartel President was elected in Colombia, FARC was practically eliminated.
Iran funded Chavez in Venezuela, and the cartels likely placed Obama as well. Soros has his dirty fingerprints on everything, and as a Hedge Fund Manager with private banks, he has been accused of Laundering Drug money in the past.
Looking back, I’m pretty sure Carter was corruptl. I remember Clinton was accused of allowing cocaine filled planes into Arkansas when he was governor. A lot of things make sense now.
What is strange is Bush’s silence, what about Israel, the UK?
and the media will not mess with Obama’s and his minion’s main source of income
besides what would happen if the media lost their payola? They might tell the truth.
Heroin turned China, Iran, and Russia into slave nations. That’s what they want to do to us. Heroin is like alcohol that can be used recreationally without creating a deadly habit.
It is ridiculously addictive and dangerous. In India there is a city called, “The City of Widows and Orphans”. Most heroin addicts only overcome their addiction by death.
The legalization scheme has also been planned for many years. Your gullability to their propaganda shows the extent of their influence.
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-hidden-soros-agenda-drugs-money-the-media-and-political-power
Chavez legalized drugs in Venezuela on every corner and the once wealthy Latin American nation had cocaine on every corner but no toilet paper.
Prosperous nations such as Singapore and Abu Dhabi have a death penalty for drug traffickers because they aren’t ignorant of the centuries old devastation this addiction has on societies.
Take care of your families.
Stubbornly? War on Poverty brought more poverty, war on terror brought more terror, war on obesity brought more obesity, war on drugs brought more drugs. It's the Beltway Way.
While drug problems have been historically unknown in Iraq (out of fear of repression striking traffickers and consumers or quite simply from lack of information), OICS has worried about the new trend since its March 2004 annual report. "Drugs have started to enter the country in huge quantities, notably through the Eastern border," with Iran, revealed Iraqi Minister of the Interior Nouri Badrane then, who worried especially about the increase in narcotics consumption among young Iraqis: "Consumption of these drugs is on the rise, due to unemployment, insecurity, and the sense of uncertainty about the future, especially among young people." A few months later, his equivalent at the Health Ministry talked about "a problem that has become endemic," submitting a number of 2,029 registered addicts.
Babylon, figuratively and literally:
Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
5331 pharmakeia {far-mak-i'-ah}
from 5332;; n f
AV - sorcery 2, witchcraft 1; 3
1) the use or the administering of drugs
2) poisoning
3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
4) metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry
As Tilted Irish Kilt said,
Follow the MONEY !!<<<
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Yep. Looks like the timetable is accelerating.
They are trying to open borders, and release criminals from jails. This is what they did in Venezuela. It was invaded by Cubans, and criminals had free reign. Opposition was always prosecuted. Chavez also made gun ownership illegal. This left law abiding citizens completely vulnerable. I’m sure that’s next for us.
They all have the same MO. That is why I have been screaming for the longest time that we are a Narco Nation. The reality is that every nation in the world has some criminal element that functions under the protection of governments. The Taliban was created by the Pakistan government etc.
The only nation intercepting heroin shipments off of Africa is Australia. Ukraine, as one example, is known as a corrupt, money laundering hub, that strategically trafficks drugs into the EU, as Mexico does to the US. They are fighting over drug territory and the US and the UK are in on it. At least Putin is an honest thug that doesn’t pretend otherwise.
We are in trouble.
Along with the complicit government, there is also the problem that Wall Street banks, private banks, Hedge Funds and other powerful institutions are in on it as well.
JP Morgan openly launders money in cities such as Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez turned that nation into one of the biggest drug distributors of the world. The people have no toilet paper, but they have plenty of cocaine.
The DEA has been caught laundering money as well, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.” How convenient?
Why is the entire US Justice Department is complicit with the cartels? One example reported here:
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel MICHAEL KELLEY JAN. 13, 2014,
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl
“The evidence seems to indicate that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons, but that tax payers’ dollars in the form of informant payments, may have financed those engaging in such activities,” the pleading added.
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