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How the antichrist used the Taliban to destroy the West with drugs - exposed
German State Television
| Sept. 27
| Joerg Brase, German State Television, self
Posted on 09/27/2001 6:05:28 PM PDT by Milosevic2
The drug business of the Taliban
In the triangle border from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran as many hard drugs are seized as nowhere else in the world. 80 per cent of it come from Afghanistan. According to estimates of the German Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) the Taliban - despite contrary announcements - is directly involved in this billions-worth drug trade. A report from the Iranian-Afghan border area, by Joerg Brase, edited by the second channel of the German State Television.
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Iranian soldiers arrest drug smugglers |
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For Iranian soldiers at the Iranian-Afghan boundary it is deadly routine: taking cover take behind meager hills, the small path down in the valley thereby firmly in the visor. When a camel caravan from the neighboring country Afghanistan bends around the corner, the soldiers open fire. Combat takes ten minutes, then it is quiet on the stony way. A smuggler is dead, another arrested, the rest could flee.
500 Kilos hard drugs on one day captures
For the first time a western team was allowed to turn here in this restricted area. The boss of the Iranian group of soldiers presents proudly the booty - brown, viscous juice, raw opium. "That should be a gift for you in the west ", he says. Jubilant the Iranians draw back. They just captured 500 Kilos hard drugs .
A few kilometers away camel cadavers are decaying in the sun, the remainder of the caravan. They came from the Afghan province Nimruz. Loaded with the material, the one little prosperity to protect is in an extremely poor country, which does not have otherwise much to offer to its inhabitants.
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Seized drugs |
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Raw opium seized by the tonnes
Mohammad Fallah, director/conductor of the Iranian anti-drug commission: " in the last decade the civil war destroyed the entire infrastructure in Afghanistan. Also the transportation routes are broken. Thus the farmers looked a product up, with which they can obtain a tidy gain with small quantities. Today we are therefore at the point, at that the entire international community are threatened. "
Raw opium seized by the tonnes. Here in the triangle between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran as many hard drugs are seized as nowhere else in the world. Still the most important smuggler paths pull themselves Iran by the meager mountains into Turkey, where the Opium is continued to process. The final products come over the Balkans until Germany. Since the Taliban 1996 took over power, it all became worse.
Leo Schuster, from the Federal Criminal Investigation Office Wiesbaden (BKA): ", unfortunately we must admit a clear increase of the cultivated areas and the yield quantities. That is called, the supply increased by a factor of three. "
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Drug raid in Hamburg |
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The Taliban plays the cooperative role
Drug raid in Hamburg. 80 per cent of the hard drugs come from Afghanistan. Over 2.000 drug dead in the last year. Only the small fish are seized, a few grams of heroin. To convince the main supplier, Afghanistan, to stop the cultivation of poppy, international assistance is promised. The Taliban plays the cooperative role. But the drug investigators are sceptical.
Leo Schuster, BKA: " we assume poppy is still cultivated. We also still assume for example still Opium stocks stored in the order of magnitude for a consumer range from two to three years. "
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Flowering poppy fields in Afghanistan |
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The poppy fields in Afghanistan continue to flower
Mohamed Fallah, director of the Iranian anti-drug commission: " thus even if the Afghan farmers wanted to cultivate something else, that would not be so simply. If its government states today, Opium production is , then they should tell us, what their farmers produce instead. "
The Iranians don't believe it. According to them there was a bad harvest only because of the drynesses in the last two years. Thus the Kilo price for raw opium, which is won from the blooms of the poppies, shot at 200 dollar up from 30 dollar per Kilo. The fields in Afghanistan continue to flower. Many Afghans became specialists after decades of cultivation . A golden handicraft, and the strictly Islamic Taliban government takes the money from the drug trade.
Leo Schuster, BKA: " the international estimates are that the Taliban organizes the drug trade not directly, but profits from it."The country lives from drug trade
With an estimated year's turnover of approximately 50 billion dollar there's plenty of income for the strict Islam pupils. Nevertheless the Taliban allegedly wants to stop the Opium cultivation , because after all the Koran forbids the drug consumption, so the religious argument. Nobody control this, and most observers do not believe them a word. To the Taliban it's just a way to get international aid funds. The country - and concomitantly its government - lives until today on the drug trade. The numbers of the Iranian border guards exceed even still those of the German authorities.
General Mohamad Shafii, director/conductor of the Antidrugs unit Zahedan: " our statistics disprove the statements of the Afghans, there would be no more drug smuggling. That is contrary to what we seize at our boundaries. Our yield shows that today in Afghanistan actually ten times more drugs are produced than ten years ago. "
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Smuggler weapons |
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At the Afghan-Iranian boundary war prevails
The smugglers and drug barons become ever more brutal. They maintain highly prepared armies and have heavy machine guns, air defense cannons, garnet throwers, etc. At the Afghan-Iranian boundary prevails a war, which costs each year the life of 200 border soldiers. The government in Teheran spends millions into new border attachments because of the rising number of the drug-addicted in Iran. Ditches were up-poured pulled, earth barriers, whole valleys were fenced.
General Mohamad Shafii: " the border attachments, which we established, changed the flow of drug smuggling. The heavy motorized and armed drug caravans were stopped thereby. The smugglers had to transfer to camels and motorcycles, or go even to foot. The express way is close. They cannot feel any longer as safe at the east boundary as in former times. They were forced to modify their tactics. "
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Drug smuggler |
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The drug trade continues
Now the smugglers come in the dusk. They feel so safe that they let us ride along until short before the Iranian boundary. They camouflage their auto, drive only at night with modern night-vision devices into the restricted area. There they will meet the caravans later and will reload the drug. Despite all checks, at least 80 per cent of the drugs come through. The fact that thereby something is lost is for the smugglers just deadly routine. A painable loss with the business with death, in a country, so poor that a human life counts not much.
Aired 25 September 2001, "Frontal 21", Second Channel of German State Television, ZDF. BTW, in Hamburg, Germany, the attack to the WTC and Pentagon was planned. One of the reasons why this was not censored is that what "despite contrary announcements" exactly means is not explained. Below the horrible truth.
The antichrist campaign to finance and promote the Taliban and destroy the West with drugs
- US State Dept. gives $43 million in Aid to Taliban in May 2001 - to eradicate Heroin Poppy's, announced by Secretary of State Colin Powell
- In July 2000, the Taleban announced a complete ban on poppy production and then went on to enforce it. The UN believes the ban was so effective that production fell by 3,000 tonnes, BBC, September 24, 2001
- The United Nations is still compiling its latest report, but a spokesman said if the trend of the last two years continued, the Taliban could be credited with carrying out the most successful drug-eradication programs in history - Reuters September 25, 2001
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To: Milosevic2
I must have missed the "Anti-Christ" reference in the article.
To: Milosevic2
The Taliban recently lifted the ban on opium growing
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:12:18 PM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: CoolGuyVic
amazing how powerful the anti-chirst is, eh?
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:13:38 PM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: Milosevic2
The Anti-Christ is not here yet, I say he is 5-10 years aways from now
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:15:01 PM PDT
by
KQQL
To: KQQL
FR used to be such a good place to visit, sigh.
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:18:50 PM PDT
by
Mahone
To: JmyBryan
"amazing how powerful the anti-chirst is, eh? No joke.
I thought the Anti-Christ was supposed to unite the nations. I just don't think the Taliban is doing a very good job at that. (;
To: CoolGuyVic
lol............
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:22:03 PM PDT
by
KQQL
To: KQQL
I disagree. I think the Anti-Christ ran this country from 1992 to 2000.
To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
I second that......
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:28:00 PM PDT
by
GinaL
To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Agreed!!
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09/27/2001 6:32:30 PM PDT
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AgThorn
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To: Milosevic2
Poppies! Poppies!
To: Milosevic2
This article reaks of pro-Iranian BS. Stuff it Milo.
To: Milosevic2
And what about the people in the region under the Northern Alliance? They don't grow opium, do they? Nooooo...
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posted on
09/27/2001 6:41:03 PM PDT
by
Int
To: Milosevic2
I hope they smelled this before they stuck their hand in it!
I think the anti-christ is here. He rose to power in 1992.
The description fits like a presidential propolactic.
To: CoolGuyVic
Me to! I don't think the poppies will grow to good in a parking lot.
To: GinaL
And he may do it again in 2004, a la hitlery.
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posted on
09/27/2001 7:05:54 PM PDT
by
Quaz957
To: The Kitten
Come take a looksee
What else besides drugs do Pakistan and Afghanistan have in the way of exportable googd to raise foreign exchange??? Get rid of Osama, and the drug trade goes ... poof!
To: Milosevic2
Opium and it's derivatives would not travel world-wide unless everybody got a piece of the pie.
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