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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 02 > U.N.: Drug cartels may be forming in Afghanistan

U.N.: Drug cartels may be forming in Afghanistan

By Richard A. Oppel Jr. / The Bulletin
September 2, 2009

KABUL " Though the Afghan opium harvest has declined for the second consecutive year, a new U.N. report says, there is growing evidence that some Afghan insurgent forces are becoming "narco-cartels" " similar to anti-government guerrilla groups in Colombia " that view....

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