IP: fro author left this critical paragraph out of the Globe article on Afghan drugs

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:32:23 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu (David Farber)
> From: Richard Jay Solomon <richard () goodread com>



> Here is the whole thing



> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/269/nation/Kabul_drops_opium_ban_boom_feared+.shtml
>
> > The price for a kilogram of Afghan opium has plummeted in the last two 
> > days from $500 to about $100, according to United Nations 
> > narcotics-control officials, who attribute the drop to a rapid selloff of 
> > stockpiles because of fears of an imminent attack.
> > ''Our sources tell us that people who have stocks of opium are trying to 
> > get rid of them as quickly as possible,'' said Mohammad S. Amirkhizi, 
> > senior policy adviser at the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime 
> > Prevention in Vienna.

> > If the United States strikes Taliban targets and the Taliban lose control 
> > over much of the country, he said, the drug trade will flourish.
> >
> > ''No security and no order in the country would mean that the production 
> > again would widely develop this year,'' Amirkhizi said. ''Harvesting 
> > season is in about four months. If we don't come out of the crisis period 
> > by then, there will be nobody to control the production.''



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