This was an article dated May 23, 2005 in the Guardian (UK). It states that: "US officials embarrassed the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, yesterday on the eve of his meeting with George Bush by leaking the contents of a memo that said he was "unwilling to assert strong leadership" in the country's war against heroin production."
A three page cable "sent on May 13 said that provincial officials and village elders had impeded the destruction of poppies and that Afghan officials, including Mr Karzai, had done little to intervene."
It said: "Although President Karzai has been well aware of the difficulty in trying to implement an effective ground eradication programme, he has been unwilling to assert strong leadership, even in his own province of Kandahar." etc..
This was written more than FOUR years ago! Absolutely NOTHING, has changed since then... except the illegal heroin drug trade has INCREASED all around the world since the beginning of this war. Can we REALLY expect a change in Karzai's corrupt "government" NOW?
Read the entire article at:
Karzai accused of being soft on opium trade - May 23,2005 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/23/afghanistan.drugstrade
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