US tax dollars at work: Top Afghan General Caught Transporting Heroin in Truck

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Few more years of training is needed.

Top Afghan General Caught Transporting Heroin in Truck: Officials

by Fazul Rahim
KABUL, Afghanistan — A senior Afghan general has been arrested after being caught transporting a large amount of heroin in his military truck, police said.
Brig. Gen. Abdul Samad Habibi was driving on the main highway in the country's north when he was stopped on Tuesday, Baghlan provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Jabar Purduli told NBC News.
"An Afghan Army Ranger truck was stopped at a checkpoint in in Puli-Khumri and our counter-narcotic police found [41 lbs] of heroin inside," he said.
Two other people were detained with Habibi, who is in charge of recruitment for the army in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, according to Purduli. Habibi is expected to be charged in the next few days, he added.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/to...-truck-n385041






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[Ronin Truth]

To an awaiting CIA leased civilian air cargo transport jet aircraft scheduled for departure to JFK with complete diplomatic clearances.

[tod evans]

Just think of all the big-pharm drugs that'd replace!

No Dr. visit, no insurance company employees grafting their cut just plain ol' pain medicine that happens to give ya' a buzz.........

But now everybody is happy! The kops, the Newz, big-pharm, insurance and even the poppy farmers because their product is in higher demand....

The only folks who aren't happy are those using it for pain management and junkies..........

[Ronin Truth]

Just think of all the big-pharm drugs that'd replace!

No Dr. visit, no insurance company employees grafting their cut just plain ol' pain medicine that happens to give ya' a buzz.........

But now everybody is happy! The kops, the Newz, big-pharm, insurance and even the poppy farmers because their product is in higher demand....

The only folks who aren't happy are those using it for pain management and junkies..........

No, it's being delivered to the NYC Mafia for street processing. CIA just collects for transport.

[tod evans]

No, it's being delivered to the NYC Mafia for street processing. CIA just collects for transport.

Far as I'm concerned that'd be a good thing........

[timosman]

To an awaiting CIA leased civilian air cargo transport jet aircraft scheduled for departure to JFK with complete diplomatic clearances.

That's where he was returning from .... The remaining 41 lbs were to fund personal expenses. He was already told not to use army trucks for personal deliveries. Some people will never learn.

[acptulsa]

The only part of this which surprises me is that I thought those who tried to steal the CIA's opium and compete with them were just quietly shot.

[timosman]

The only part of this which surprises me is that I thought those who tried to steal the CIA's opium and compete with them were just quietly shot.

Nah, we do not kill them anymore, we just expose them to "the rule of law"

[enhanced_deficit]

Too many conspiracy theories around these days.

[timosman]

Too many conspiracy theories around these days.

Agreed, about time somebody set the record straight - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?477628 -

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Agreed, about time somebody set the record straight - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?477628 -

Point noted.

Good progress made since good ol days.


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[69360]

Now the police who arrested him can sell the dope.

[cindy25]

the official salaries of these generals and officials is probably so low that they have no choice.

[enhanced_deficit]

the official salaries of these generals and officials is probably so low that they have no choice.

Still, no justification for going to the opposite extremes.

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[enhanced_deficit]

Although this surge occured under Obama's watch, probably just a coincidence:

Heroin use and addiction are surging in the U.S.

July 7, 2015
Heroin use surged over the past decade, and the wave of addiction and overdose is closely related to the nation’s ongoing prescription drug epidemic, federal health officials said Tuesday.
A new report says that 2.6 out of every 1,000 U.S. residents 12 and older used heroin in the years 2011 to 2013. That’s a 63% increase in the rate of heroin use since the years 2002 to 2004.

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...707-story.html


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Training Afghan soldiers exposes the US to a huge risk

By Paul Sperry
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Washington is a factory for dumb ideas, but taking the cake may be a US-based military training program for Afghan soldiers that not only can’t keep track of enrollees — 152 of whom have gone AWOL — but can’t even get the Afghan army to use those who actually graduate and return home.
Of the 152 AWOL Afghan trainees, 70 have either fled the US, mostly to Canada, and 13 remain unaccounted for. ICE has deemed Afghan trainees who have gone AWOL “to be high-risk because they involve militarily trained individuals of a fighting age who have demonstrated a ‘flight risk.’ ”
Do any have terrorist ties or sympathies? We really have no idea. That’s because vetting of enrollees is “limited” and the “processes for selecting personnel for training appear flawed,” the report found.
The Afghan trainees, who are given diplomatic visas, undergo no in-person interview or fingerprinting before they are brought into the US. And Kabul “is not enforcing” a program to pre-screen candidates for security risks.



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by Alastair Jamieson
A U.S. service member died from injuries sustained after a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday, while six others were receiving medical treatment.

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US War In Afghanistan Is Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling The Drug Trade

Ironically, it was the U.S. mission to obliterate the Taliban in the “War on Terror” that turned Afghanistan into a “narco state.”

Prior to the War in Afghanistan, the Taliban actually offered subsidies to farmers to grow food crops not drugs.
In the summer of 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar announced a total ban on the cultivation of opium poppy, the plant from which heroin is made. Those caught planting poppies in Taliban-controlled parts of the country were beaten and marched through villages with motor oil on their faces.

The only opium harvest the following spring was in the northeast, in an area controlled by the Taliban’s rivals, the Northern Alliance. That year, as Matthieu Aikins reported for Rolling Stone in 2012, “Opium production fell from an estimated 3,276 tons in 2000 to 185 tons in 2001.”

Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a poppy field during a clearing mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)









Over 200 civilians/troops killed, Trump's Afghan war escalation failing already?