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Afghan narcotics efforts called into question.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
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Thomas Schweich, recently retired principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and coordinator for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan, alleges that the Afghan regime is shielding its country's illicit drug trade.
Although Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly defended his commitment to fighting corruption and combating the drug trade, Schweich remains unconvinced. "Karzai was playing us like a fiddle," Schweich claimed in an article that appeared in the New York Times Magazine. According to Schweich, "The U.S. would spend billions of dollars on infrastructure development; the U.S. and its allies would fight the Taliban; Karzai's friends could get richer off the drug trade."
Afghan officials have claimed that the growth of the drug trade and cultivation of poppies has been driven by poverty. Schweich described a ...
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