Afghanistan: Ten Years of Illegal Occupation!

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• Taleban Wipes out Afghanistan’s Opium Production
  Jim Teeple Jalalabad, 8 Apr 2001 21:23 UTC
  U.N. drug control officials say Taleban authorities in Afghanistan have wiped out the country’s opium crop – the largest such crop in the world. U.N. officials say the action is unprecedented, and Afghanistan’s former poppy farmers need urgent assistance to help them make the transition to farming legitimate crops. That transition is already well underway, but many Afghan farmers think giving up poppy farming will mean a harder life.
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  Afghanistan, Opium and the Taliban
  JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST)
  U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan — once the world’s largest producer — since banning poppy cultivation last summer. A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation’s largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.
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  The Afghanistan War was Planned Months Before the 9/11 Attacks
  …. 26 June 2001: India and Iran will “facilitate” US and Russian plans for “limited military action” against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don’t bend Afghanistan’s fundamentalist regime. The Taliban controls 90 per cent of Afghanistan and is advancing northward along the Salang highway and preparing for a rear attack on the opposition Northern Alliance fromTajikistan-Afghanistan border positions.
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  A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week’s attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.
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  BBC – American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JULY 2001.
  US ‘planned attack on Taleban’. The wider objective was to oust the Taleban
  By the BBC’s George Arney
  A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week’s attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.
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  MSNBC – Afghanistan war plans were on Bush’s desk on 9/9/2001
  President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. … The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity. [MSNBC]

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