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Rating: +8 (+8/-0) | 2008-05-08 08:13:38
MilesAway
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Afghanistan supplies some 93 percent of the world's opium used to make heroin, and the Taliban militants earn up to $100 million from the drug trade, the United Nations estimates.

What a irony. Our Marines are protecting all that.

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