Afghanistan's Drug Problem

[goesh]

- that's what the MSN article is reporting. Opium production is up that much from 2005:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19431056/

"U.N.: Opium production soaring in Afghanistan
Nation’s record poppy harvest has boosted global supply to new record high
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In 2006, Afghanistan accounted for 92 percent of global illicit opium production, up from 70 percent in 2000 and 52 percent a decade earlier. The higher yields in Afghanistan have brought global opium production to a new record high of 6,610 metric tons in 2006, a 43 percent increase over 2005."

that's beau-coup smoke - no wonder the taliban keeps coming across the border in force.