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To: Dog; Right_in_Virginia; Miss Marple
Here we go. Sounds like a concurrent operation:

Afghans seize four tonnes of drugs, arrest seven

KABUL, April 12 (Reuters) - Afghan anti-narcotics forces have raided a major heroin-producing centre, seizing more than four tonnes of drugs and arresting seven suspects, four of them Pakistanis, the government said on Wednesday.

Afghanistan is the world's main producer of opium and its refined form, heroin, and the huge trade is feeding into an escalating insurgency against foreign troops and the Western-backed government, security officials say.

Newly formed Special Narcotics Forces mounted the raids in the southern province of Helmand, Afghanistan's main opium-growing region, where authorities say militants and the drug gangs are in league.

Eight heroin-refining laboratories were seized and destroyed in the operation on Tuesday in the south of Helmand near the Pakistani border...

109 posted on 04/12/2006 6:45:59 AM PDT by Coop (Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
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To: Coop; Miss Marple

Thanks for the update...I just returned from picking up my taxes (side note: I LOVE our President)

I'll read through the rest of the posts.

May God bless our heroes.


163 posted on 04/12/2006 8:45:32 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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