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POPPYCOCK!
Afghan terror war creates drugs overdose in Britain
SPECIAL REPORT
by NADEEM BADSHAH
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OUT OF CONTROL:
An Allied Forces
soldier in a poppy
field in Afghanistan
Sonu sings
his tribute
to Mohd
Rafi
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FUTURE
TENSE
Priyanka: I
hope Love
Story 2050
is liked
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DRUG dealers are cashing in
on the government’s failure
to control the amount of her-
oin flooding into this country
from Afghanistan – a trend
that is destroying the lives of
many young British Asians.
At least 90 per cent of heroin in
Britain comes from Afghanistan,
where farmers grow the opium
poppy that contains morphine
from which heroin is made.
In revealing interviews with
Eastern Eye, street dealers in Brit-
ain bragged that their heroin
business has been booming since
British and US-led troops invaded
Afghanistan in 2001.
The Taliban government ban-
ned opium production in 2000.
But since Allied forces invaded to