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Subject:
U.S. and NATO Protecting and Profiting Opium Trade in Afghanistan
To:
President Barack Obama
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Sen. John Cornyn
Rep. Ted Poe
November 2, 2009
It is certainly with bewilderment and disgust when the taxpayer reads the following excerpt from: "US goofs the Afghan election" By M K Bhadrakumar that the U.S. military and NATO forces are into protecting and "taxing" the opium trade in Afghanistan! Just like organized crime bosses! The American citizen is now, blatantly, forced by lobbyist leveraged members of Congress to fund the corrupt corporate/military venture.
Representatives, Senators, I demand that funding to Afghanistan be severely reduced and that U.S. troop withdrawal begin. I am not afraid of 100 members of Al Qaida in Pakistan. I am afraid of the members of Congress. Read the following:
It is reported in the New York Times that President Hamid Karzai's brother, Wali Karzai is a drug trafficker.
Washington must take serious note that the response to the New York Times report has come from none other than the Afghan Minister of Counter-Narcotics, General Khodaidad Khodaidad. The minister has brought into public debate Afghanistan's best-kept secret: the role of foreign troops in drug trafficking.
It was one thing to be dismissive when the former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), General Hamil Gul, alleged that American military aircraft were being used for drug trafficking in Afghanistan.
It might also have been expedient to simply ignore the issue when "well-informed Russian sources" made media comments that US troops were doing roaring business in drug trafficking in Afghanistan running into "hundreds of millions of dollars". But Khodaidad is a highly trained professional who knows what he is talking about.
The Indians know him, and so do the Russians. Khodaidad passed out from the prestigious Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun and was a product of the famous Fronze Military Academy in Moscow.
He had a proven record in the communist government in Kabul as a highly decorated general; he led crack paratrooper brigades in the war in the early 1980s and he served as the army commander in the crucial Kunduz and Takhar frontline facing Ahmad Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance. Britain, where he lived in exile for a decade, knows him too.
Therefore, when Khodaidad said on Sunday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) contingents from the US, Britain and Canada are "taxing" the production of opium in the regions under their control, he carried a stern warning on behalf of Karazi. It is a simple, direct message: don't throw stones while sitting in a glass cage.
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Who is M K Bhadrakumar?
Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey.
Crosby , TX
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