Current Ideas: A Blog by Jeffrey A. Schaler

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Sunday, September 03, 2006

Opium Harvest at Record Level in Afghanistan

New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 — Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50 percent from last year, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said Saturday in Kabul.

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