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• BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News | Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude: ... to Progressive Radio: The Thom Hartmann Show 5/23 Opium: Iraq's deadly new export, may become a major heroin supplier 5/23 ...
• All Spin Zone: ... on the strength of opium money, blah, blah, blah. That people in war-ravaged Iraq are poised to compete with Afghanistan in growing opium — that’s new. Yes, Iraqi opium farms. That’s being reported by the Independent . Here’s some of the meat of the story: Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to the west of the city of Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, have stopped cultivating rice, for which the area is famous, and are instead planting poppies, ...
• BlondeSense: ... Yesterday I read that in Afghanistan, 600,000 of the one million opium addicts are under age 15. Today I read that Iraqi farmers are turning to growing poppies and there is little that the Iraqi government can do. Posted by BlondeSense Liz | ...
• PBD - Progressive Blog Digest: ... long haul. The better things get, the more reason we have to stay, and the worse things get, the more reason we have to stay. Brilliant!] Oh, great (thanks to AmericaBlog for the link) http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2573299.ece Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan. . . Not ...
• This Century Sucks - A Look at the Corrupt and Evil Whistle Ass Administration: ... War on Terror - Meet the War on Drugs War on Drugs - Meet the War on Terror What? You've already met - in Afganistan? Oh, well good day then. Opium: Iraq's deadly new export Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to the west of the city of Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, have stopped cultivating rice, for which the area is famous, and are instead planting poppies, Iraqi sources familiar with the area have told The ...