and the poor frogs lost all that money when they started making heroin in Asia instead of shipping the opium to france for processing...
Posted on 11/27/2005 8:12:12 AM PST by mym
DUSHANBE. Nov 27 (Interfax) - More than 120 kilograms of heroin were seized on the Tajik-Afghan border near Parkhar, 250 kilometers southwest of Dushanbe, Abdulsattor Gulakhmatov, press secretary of the Tajik state border guard committee, told Interfax on Sunday.
Border guards fired on a group illegally crossing the border, he said. "One man, an Afghan citizen, was detained. The others managed to escape, leaving behind 112 plastic bags with heroin weighing over 120 kilograms," Gulakhmatov said.
More than 1.8 tonnes of drugs, among them over 920 kilograms of heroin, have been seized on the Tajik-Afghan border in 2005.
Earlier this year, Russia handed over control over the 1,344- kilometer border with Afghanistan to Tajikistan. Russian border guards were deployed in the area under an intergovernmental agreement signed in 1993.
"over 920 kilograms of heroin" - Heck, Afghan "agriculture" is growing.
Meanwhile, another 5,000 times as much leaked through elsewhere.
Great. Now we will just have price gouging in the US by greedy "Big Heroin" dealers. < sarc>
and the poor frogs lost all that money when they started making heroin in Asia instead of shipping the opium to france for processing...
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