U.S. officials said that farmers were growing opium-bearing poppy both in northern Afghanistan, which is controlled by the Northern Alliance, and in areas formerly run by the Taliban. Officials made these observations while discussing U.S. plans to help rebuild the war-ravaged country at a news briefing in Washington. Andrew Natsios, the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said poppy growing had increased in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime. "The crop has come back. It has been planted," he said. "There are poppy-growing areas all along here, in the north, too." Although initially benefiting from the...