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UN Report on Afghanistan’s Drug Problem: muddled and misleading

UN Report on Afghanistan’s Drug Problem: muddled and misleading

A recent report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘muddies the water on one of the most important issues in the debate — the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production.’ Entitled Addiction, Crime, and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium, the report ‘gives the false impression that the Taliban are the main culprits [...]
Osama bin Laden could have been captured back in December 2001

Osama bin Laden could have been captured back in December 2001

The US is currently lamenting that if only it had sent a sufficient enough force to Afghanistan back in 2001, it would have already captured Osama bin Laden in December of hat year. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s report says that a robust American force could have barred bin Laden’s escape in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora; [...]