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Hamid Karzai and his drug imperium with US Generals

24.7.2008 by CrniLabudovi.

July 27, 2008

Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?

By THOMAS SCHWEICH

On March 1, 2006, I met Hamid Karzai for the first time. It was a clear, crisp day in Kabul. The Afghan president joined President and Mrs. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Ambassador Ronald Neumann to dedicate the new United States Embassy. He thanked the American people for all they had done for Afghanistan. I was a senior counternarcotics official recently arrived in a country that supplied 90 percent of the world’s heroin. I took to heart Karzai’s strong statements against the Afghan drug trade. That was my first mistake.

Over the next two years I would discover how deeply the Afghan government was involved in protecting the opium trade — by shielding it from American-designed policies. While it is true that Karzai’s Taliban enemies finance themselves from the drug trade, so do many of his supporters. At the same time, some of our NATO allies have resisted the anti-opium offensive, as has our own Defense Department, which tends to see counternarcotics as other people’s business to be settled once the war-fighting is over. The trouble is that the fighting is unlikely to end as long as the Taliban can finance themselves through drugs — and as long as the Kabul government is dependent on opium to sustain its own hold on power.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When I attended an Afghanistan briefing for Anne Patterson on Dec. 1, 2005, soon after she became assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law-enforcement affairs, she turned to me with her characteristic smile and said, “What have we gotten ourselves into?” We had just learned that in the two previous months Afghan farmers had planted almost 60 percent more poppy than the year before, for a total of 165,000 hectares (637 square miles). The 2006 harvest would be the biggest narco-crop in history. That was the challenge we faced. Patterson — already a three-time ambassador — made me her deputy at the law-enforcement bureau, which has anti-crime programs in dozens of countries.

At the beginning of 2006, I went to the high-profile London Conference on Afghanistan. It was a grand event mired in deception, at least with respect to the drug situation. Everyone from the Afghan delegation and most in the international community knew that poppy cultivation and heroin production would increase significantly in 2006. But the delegates to the London Conference instead dwelled on the 2005 harvest, which was lower than that of 2004, principally because of poor weather and market manipulation by drug lords like Sher Muhammad Akhundzada, who had been governor of the heroin capital of the world — Helmand Province — and then a member of Afghanistan’s Parliament. So the Afghans congratulated themselves on their tremendous success in fighting drugs even as everyone knew the problem was worse than ever.

About three months later, after meeting with local officials in Helmand — my helicopter touched down in the middle of a poppy field — I went to the White House to brief Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others on the expanding opium problem. I advocated a policy replicating what had worked in other countries: public education about the evils of heroin and the illegality of cultivating poppies; alternative crops; eradication of poppy fields; interdiction of drug shipments and arrest of traffickers; and improvements to the judicial system.

I emphasized at this and subsequent meetings that crop eradication, although claiming less than a third of the $500 million budgeted for Afghan counternarcotics, was the most controversial part of the program. But because no other crop came even close to the value of poppies, we needed the threat of eradication to force farmers to accept less-lucrative alternatives. (Eradication was an essential component of successful anti-poppy efforts in Guatemala, Southeast Asia and Pakistan.) The most effective method of eradication was the use of herbicides delivered by crop-dusters. But Karzai had long opposed aerial eradication, saying it would be misunderstood as some sort of poison coming from the sky. He claimed to fear that aerial eradication would result in an uprising that would cause him to lose power. We found this argument perplexing because aerial eradication was used in rural areas of other poor countries without a significant popular backlash. The chemical used, glyphosate, was a weed killer used all over the United States, Europe and even Afghanistan. (Drug lords use it in their gardens in Kabul.) There were volumes of evidence demonstrating that it was harmless to humans and became inert when it hit the ground. My assistant at the time was a Georgia farmer, and he told me that his father mixed glyphosate with his hands before applying it to their orchards.

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she got the story firsthand from Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, who commanded all U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He made it clear: drugs are bad, but his orders were that drugs were not a priority of the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Patterson explained to Eikenberry that, when she was ambassador to Colombia, she saw the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) finance their insurgency with profits from the cocaine trade, and she warned Eikenberry that the risk of a narco-insurgency in Afghanistan was very high. Eikenberry was familiar with the Colombian situation, but the Pentagon strategy was “sequencing” — defeat the Taliban, then have someone else clean up the drug business.

The Drug Enforcement Administration worked the heroin trafficking and interdiction effort with the Afghans. They targeted kingpins and disrupted drug-smuggling networks. The D.E.A. had excellent agents in Afghanistan, but there were not enough of them, and they had seemingly unending difficulties getting Mi-17 helicopters and other equipment that the Pentagon promised for the training of the counternarcotics police of Afghanistan. In addition, the Pentagon had reneged on a deal to allow the D.E.A. the use of precious ramp space at the Kabul airport. Consequently, the effort to interdict drug shipments and arrest traffickers had stalled. Less than 1 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan was being seized there. The effort became even more complicated later in 2006, when Benjamin Freakley, the two-star U.S. general who ran the eastern front, shut down all operations by the D.E.A. and Afghan counternarcotics police in Nangarhar — a key heroin-trafficking province. The general said that antidrug operations were an unnecessary obstacle to his military operations……………..

Heroin is “Good for Your Health”: Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade

Multibillion dollar earnings for organized crime and Western financial Institutions

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, April 29, 2007

The Western media in chorus blame the Taliban and the warlords. Western officials are said to believe that “the trade is controlled by 25 smugglers including three government ministers.” (Guardian, op. cit).

Yet in a bitter irony, US military presence has served to restore rather than eradicate the drug trade. Opium production has increased 33 fold from 185 tons in 2001 under the Taliban to 6100 tons in 2006. Cultivated areas have increased 21 fold since the 2001 US-led invasion.

What the media reports fail to acknowledge is that the Taliban government was instrumental in 2000-2001 in implementing a successful drug eradication program, with the support and collaboration of the UN.

Implemented in 2000-2001, the Taliban’s drug eradication program led to a 94 percent decline in opium cultivation. In 2001, according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels.

The Vienna based UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that the 2006 harvest will be of the order of 6,100 tonnes, 33 times its production levels in 2001 under the Taliban government (3200 % increase in 5 years).

Cultivation in 2006 reached a record 165,000 hectares compared with 104,000 in 2005 and 7,606 in 2001 under the Taliban

Multibillion dollar trade

According to the UN, Afghanistan supplies in 2006 some 92 percent of the world’s supply of opium, which is used to make heroin.

The UN estimates that for 2006, the contribution of the drug trade to the Afghan economy is of the order of 2.7 billion. What it fails to mention is the fact that more than 95 percent of the revenues generated by this lucrative contraband accrues to business syndicates, organized crime and banking and financial institutions. A very small percentage accrues to farmers and traders in the producing country.

(See also UNODC, The Opium Economy in Afghanistan,
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/afg_opium_economy_www.pdf , Vienna, 2003, p. 7-8)

“Afghan heroin sells on the international narcotics market for 100 times the price farmers get for their opium right out of the field”.(US State Department quoted by the Voice of America (VOA), 27 February 2004).

Based on wholesale and retail prices in Western markets, the earnings generated by the Afghan drug trade are colossal. In July 2006, street prices in Britain for…………….

(See also our detailed estimates for 2003 in The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade, by Michel Chossudovsky, The UNODC estimates the average retail price of heroin for 2004 to be of the order of $157 per gram, based on the average purity ratio).

Narcotics: Second to Oil and the Arms Trade

The foregoing estimates are consistent with the UN’s assessment concerning the size and magnitude of the global drug trade.

The Afghan trade in opiates (92 percent of total World production of opiates) constitutes a large share of the worldwide annual turnover of narcotics, which was estimated by the United Nations to be of the order of $400-500 billion.

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http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5514

U.S. Militarism & the Drug Trade: the Afghan Dossier
Global Research, February 9, 2008
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In The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, whose 1972 edition the CIA tried to suppress, Alfred W. McCoy writes, Although the drug pandemic of the 1980s had complex causes, the growth in global heroin supply could be traced, in large part, to two key aspects of U.S. policy: the failure of the DEA’s interdiction efforts and the CIA’s covert operations. By attacking heroin trafficking in separate sectors of Asia’s extended opium zone in isolation, the DEA simply diverted heroin exports from America to Europe and shifted opium production from southern Asia to Southeast Asia and back again–raising both global consumption and production with each move. Moreover, the increasing opium harvest in Burma and Afghanistan, America’s major suppliers were largely the product of CIA covert operations. [Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Brooklyn, NY: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991 edition, p. 440] Fast-forward 30 years. Writing in today’s Guardian, Patrick Wintour informs us: Afghanistan’s opium economy will take up to 20 years to eradicate and require a £1bn investment from world leaders, according to a government study published yesterday. … Its conclusions came as the UN produced fresh figures on the opium trade. The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) believes this year’s crop will be similar to, or slightly lower than, last year’s record harvest. … In 2007 Afghanistan had more land growing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined. This is the sad face of the “new” Afghanistan, “liberated” from the ISI-linked Taliban and hailed by the toxic Bush regime as the first “success” of its ballyhooed (and malign) “war on terror.” Preoccupied with stoning uppity women, applying sharia “law” (fully the “moral equivalent” of Blackwater Christian Crusaders), censoring journalists or padding Dubai bank accounts with assets looted from the Afghan people, the puppet Karzai regime — like the Taliban before it, and now — have a limitless source of “product” on hand to fuel their rapacious appetite for boodle. UNODC’s chief, Antonio Maria Costa, commenting on the report warns, “Europe and other major heroin markets should brace themselves for the health and security consequences.” These consequences won’t be long in coming. The 102-page précis, compiled by the Department of International Development and the World Bank (dubious sources, to be sure), suggest what is needed to stem the flow of illicit drugs from the world’s number one narco state are not more guns — or U.S. Apache helicopter gunships — but a concerted effort to rebuild Afghanistan’s shattered economy. But the likelihood of this happening any time soon, given America’s propensity for shady alliances with far-right drug- and warlords, say in Colombia or Kosovo just for kicks, is virtually nil. One might reasonably ask, what has become of the billions of dollars in “development” aid doled out by U.S., Asian and European taxpayers? According to Anthony Fontenot and Ajmal Maiwandi, just about what one would expect from an American military and CIA “liberation” racket: Amid the ruined mud-bricked buildings of a city that has been devastated by war and neglect, divided into sinister, heavily fortified, military compounds, and occupied by armed local and foreign mercenaries, stand randomly dispersed extravaganzas of glass-and-tile palaces: symbols of the plunder that currently provides the economic base for the “reborn” Kabul. One result of the so-called War on Terror in Afghanistan is that vast amounts of money are now pouring into luxury real estate. [”Capitol of Chaos: The New Afghanistan of Warlords and Infidels,” in Evil Paradises, New York: The New Press, 2007, p. 69] Yes, “luxury real estate.” As if Kabul were a deranged subdivision in southern California, Afghan warlords and the local equivalent of the “Real Housewives of Orange County” loll in sumptuary excess. No matter that the masses of impoverished Afghan farmers and proletarians literally starve to death, their assets (such as they are in a society devastated by decades of war fought on behalf of foreign masters) expropriated by criminal gangs dressed to kill in Armani suits. Fontenot and Maiwandi report: “As in many parts of the world dominated by chaos and the naked struggle for power, the eccentric Afghan aesthetic forged by businessmen, militia commanders, drug barons, and warlords represents the first signs of an emerging postwar order and pathology. … a collage of generic international products fused with kitsch samplings of Afghan vernacular architecture and textile patterns, all of which reflect the schizophrenic psyche of a war-torn society.” [op. cit. p. 75] Such is the terminal logic of U.S. militarism, where CIA “specialists” and corporate mercenaries are the shock troops of a predatory capitalism gone wild. Like marauding Borg threatening to “assimilate” the entire planet to a cultural wasteland of shopping malls, the international drug traffic fuels an endless cycle of violence, where, in the immortal words of robber-baroness Leona Helmsley, “the little people” always pay the price.

http://globalresearch.ca

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Üble Beleidigungen der Albanischen Mafia und Mord Drohungen im Albanischen Parlament

24.7.2008 by CrniLabudovi.

Wenn Gangster des Fatosi Nano Mafia Clans wie Taulant Ballaj, übelste Familien Beleidigungen im Albanischen Parlament inzenieren und provozieren, wird ein Parlament zum Tollhaus. Die Schwester (oder weibliche Familien Angehörige) eines Politiker als Prostituierte hinzustellen, gehört zu den übelsten Beleidigungen in vielen Kulturen und wird u.a. in vielen Blutrache Gesetzen wie dem Kanun geregelt.

Taulant Ballaj, ein zur Fatos Nano Gangster Gruppe gehörender Verbrecher, der sich in die Politik eingekauft hat!

Deftige Worte und Schlägereien sind aus vielen Parlamenten bekannt und ebenso auf dem Balkan, Deutschland und Japan. Hier geht es um einen verbalen Schlagabtausch, wo bekannt kriminelle Sozialistische Abgeordnete, welche direkt der Fatos Nano -Ilir Meta Mafia und den Drogen Kartells zu geordnet werden, eine auch für den Balkan extrem Beleidigungs Form wählten: Sie beleidigten mit einem Video Tape und heftigen Worten u.a. die Schwester des PM Salih Berisha als Prostituierte und das seine Schwester in Bordells enden wird.

Solche Beleidigungen der extremen Art, sind Grund für die Blutrache in Albanien, wobei hier der Premier Minister Salih Berisha mit Recht und unüblich dann dem Gangster Taulant Ballaj, mit Mord droht!

Und genau so muss man es auch sehen, worauf die Parlaments Präsidentin den Abgeordneten Taulant Basha aus dem Parlament entfernen liess.

Die Familie so unter der Gürtel Linie anzugreifen zeigt, das diese Art von Gangster wie Taulant Balla, Nichts in einem Parlament verloren haben, denn noch immer sind die Albanischen Mafia Clans ein mächtiger Faktor in der Politik.

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Albania PM Gets Erotic Dictionary after Brawl

24 July 2008 Tirana _ An Albanian Socialist Party leader has presented Prime Minister Sali Berisha with an erotic dictionary as a gift aiming to satirize the Premier’s brawl with a Socialist MP.

Berisha was caught ridiculing the family of an opposition deputy on tape, during a parliamentary session in the early hours of Tuesday. Read more: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12011/

The tape purportedly shows Socialist deputy Taulant Balla claiming there is a rift within the Berisha family because the Prime Minister’s daughter wanted to become a minister.

As Balla continued his speech which was specifically related to the supplementary budget, Berisha lashed out at him.

“What will happen to you sister, a lowlife prostitute in motels will end,” the Prime Minister is heard telling Balla.

“Does your sister screw in motels or hotels?” Berisha asks Balla.

Then the argument escalated and parliamentary speaker Jozefina Topalli, orders the National Guard serviceman to throw Balla out.

The opposition condemned speaker Topalli and Berisha for their behaviour and requested apologies.

The deputy head of the Socialist parliamentary group, Erjon Brace presented the premier with an erotic dictionary, which according to Brace would help Berisha better understand the meaning of the foul words he used.

“This is a gift to better explain to the Prime Minister, what ‘whorehouse’ and ‘prostitute’ means,” said Brace in parliament.

Morddrohung live im Fernsehen: Während einer Parlamentssitzung hat der Regierungschef Albaniens, Sali Berisha, einem Oppositionspolitiker offen mit Mord gedroht. “Du wirst nicht mehr lebend ins Parlament kommen”, sagte er. Die TV-Übertragung wurde daraufhin unterbrochen.

Albaniens Regierungschef Sali Berisha hat in einer im Fernsehen übertragenen Parlamentssitzung dem oppositionellen Abgeordneten Taulant Balla mit Mord gedroht. “Du solltest wissen, dass ich Dich umbringe”, sagte ein aufgebrachter Berisha in einer Nachtsitzung der Volksvertretung in Tirana: “Du wirst nicht mehr lebend ins Parlament kommen. Ich werde Dich ermorden!”

Hintergrund waren Äußerungen Ballas über die Berisha-Familie im Zusammenhang mit einer Umbildung der Regierung. Die Parlamentspräsidentin Jozefina Topalli ließ nach diesem Zwischenfall die Live-Übertragung der Sitzung beenden.

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Infos zu dem Fatos Nano Gangster: Taulant Balla

Wie ersichtlich ist und aus seiner Biographie hervor geht, gehört der Gangster Taulant Balla zu den extrem Verbrechern, welche direkt mit Hilfe von kriminellen Deutschen Politiker u.a. ein kostenlosen Studium auch in Konstanz ermöglicht wurde in der Regierungs Zeit von Fatos Nano. Grundlage war sein Politik Studium im gerade von der EU gemaßregelten Verbrecher Staat Rumänien. Das man bei so einem Studium nur Mafiöse Verbindungen aufbaut und entsprechend ausgebildet wird, ist offensichtlich.

Studimet e larta dhe ato pasuniversitare në degën e Shkencave Politike dhe Marrëdhënieve Ndërkombëtare në Universitetin “Al.I.Cuza”, Iasi - Rumani. Përvoja studimore në disa qendra universitare në Konstanz (Gjermani), Londër (Mbretëria e Bashkuar) dhe Paris (Francë). Vazhdon studimet për doktoraturë në Shkencat Politike.

Veprimtaria profesionale: 2002: Departamenti për Marrëdhëniet Ndërkombëtare në PS dhe anëtar i Bordit të ALPSA (Shoqata Shqiptare e Shkencave Politike). Grupi parlamentar: PSSH

Komisioni parlamentar: Komisioni për Integrimin Europian, anëtar.

http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taulant_Balla

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Karadic nutzte die Identität eines verstorbenen Serben und bediente sich aus den Geldmitteln der Bosnischen Staatsbank in Millionen Höhe

24.7.2008 by ctstmaser.

24.07.2008

KRIEGSVERBRECHER

Karadzic nutzte Ausweis eines toten Serben

Für seine langjährige Flucht hat Radovan Karadzic Originalausweise eines verstorbenen Serben genutzt. Nach Angaben seines Anwalts ist der mutmaßliche Kriegsverbrecher “stolz” auf sein Wirken in Bosnien.

Belgrad - Karadzic soll seine zwölfjährige Flucht auch durch Geld finanziert haben, das er aus der Nationalbank der bosnischen Serbenrepublik entwendet hatte. Dem früheren Präsidenten der Serbenrepublik sei 1997 erlaubt worden, aus den Banktresoren insgesamt 36 Millionen D-Mark mitzunehmen, berichtete die in Sarajevo erscheinende Zeitung “Dnevni avaz”.

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Karadzic: “Stolz” auf sein Wirken in Bosnien

Das Blatt zitierte aus einem vor drei Jahren geführten Interview mit dem heutigen Regierungschef der Serbenrepublik, Milorad Dodik, Karadzic habe einmal Banknoten im Wert von 28 Millionen D-Mark (DM) und ein paar Tage später von acht Millionen DM in Taschen aus dem Bankgebäude in Banja Luka getragen. Er war damals schon vom Uno-Kriegsverbrechertribunal angeklagt und ohne jede politische Funktion. Die DM war damals in allen ehemaligen jugoslawischen Staaten inoffizielles Zahlungsmittel.Seit 1998 soll Karadzic für seine Flucht Originalausweise eines fünf Jahre zuvor in Sarajevo gestorbenen Serben genutzt haben. Das berichtete die Belgrader Zeitung “Danas” unter Berufung auf Polizeiquellen. Die Personalpapiere auf den Namen Dragan David Dabic seien von der Polizei in der Stadt Ruma (50 Kilometer nordwestlich von Belgrad) ausgestellt worden.

Karadzics Anwalt Svetozar Vujavic berichtete, sein Mandant sei “stolz” auf sein Wirken in Bosnien während des Bürgerkrieges (1992-1995). “Karadzic wird in Den Haag erklären, dass er stolz auf alles ist, was er getan hat und dass er das serbische Volk in Bosnien-Herzegowina gerettet hat”, sagte der Anwalt der Zeitung “Politika”: “Er wird beweisen, dass die Anschuldigungen auf Lügen fußen und dass er nur angeklagt ist, weil er Serbe ist”.

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