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February 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Opium production by Afghan farmers rose between 2001 and 2011 from just 185 tons to a staggering 5,800 tons. Last year, levels increased by 61 percent, with more than 90 percent of heroin found on British streets being traced back to opiates cultivated in Afghanistan, according to UN figures.
The UN figures make grim reading for those who backed the invasion of Afghanistan.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in 2001 that a significant reason for deployment of foreign forces to Afghanistan was to curtail a flourishing heroin trade.
“The arms the Taliban are buying today are paid for by the lives of young British people buying their drugs on British streets. This is another part of their regime we should seek to destroy,” he said.
However, the UN figures reveal how the outcome has been so dramatically different.
Some 15 percent of Afghanistan’s gross national product now comes from drug-related exports, with the trade having a net worth of up to £1.6 billion ($2.5 billion).
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told delegates at a conference in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday that Afghanistan cannot be stable while its economy depends so heavily on the drugs trade.
He noted that the problem of drug trafficking has undermined efforts to help Afghanistan emerge as a normally functioning economy.
“We cannot speak of sustainable development when opium production is the only viable economic activity in the country,” Ban told delegates of the Paris Pact Ministerial Conference.
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