Britain is protecting the biggest ‘Heroin Crop’ of all time

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I won't put a lot of time in here as I think you're correct- and not.

You are correct that I didn't account for internal opium and heroin consumption in Afghanistan and they do, indeed, possess addicts. We do, however, have 36% of Afghanistan's heroin unaccounted and INTERPOL did IDENTIFY Pakistan as one of THREE routes used.

If the other two take 64%, then you can very reasonably assume that the remaining 36% is divided by internal consumption and that which travels specifically to Pakistan and points beyond.

Next would be what pct. is allocated to internal consumption. I'll leave that to you. Doses per addict per day x 365 x total addicts = Nat'l consumption.

5% of their gross heroin production might be high but I'd be guessing about that or less.

I'd also still suggest that a goodly portion of that heroin sent to Iran goes by way of Baluchistan.

The problem is real enough and I've never hidden from it here. There's little doubt that between 2002 and 2006 opium again became a nat'l problem for Afghanistan. We know where, though, and it's clear that however huge, the problem is increasing associated with one specific region and one primary benefactor from the trade.

Our obligations are simple as a partner in this british-led effort. First, do not lose the gains made in the rest of the nation. Second, erode the huge base of cultivation that exists in Helmand.

While Oruzgan (9900 hectares), Farah (15,000), and Kandahar (14,000) all exceed, by themselves, the rest of the nation (8500 hectares), it is Helmand where the real issue persists. Were nothing to change at all in the aforementioned provinces and the rest of the nation, reducing Helmand to it's 2005 level of 29,000 would cut the nat'l level from 157,000 to 82,000-about half.

So I've allocated one-twentieth of Afghanistan's heroin to itself. 30-31% of it's dope is moving through Pakistan as of 2006. I suspect as cultivation has increasingly focused in the south, so too the emphasis on those routes vs the north for reasons of security. Opium traveling from southern Afghanistan through Tajikstan will carry a security-cost premium based on degrees of danger.

 

[S-2]

In 2006, of 165,000 hectares of land under opium cultivation, the north and north-east regions of Afghanistan accounted for 34,500 hectares or 21% of the land.

This corresponds closely to INTERPOL's contention that 24% of Afghanistan's heroin moved through it's north to foreign destinations although, to be fair, we're discussing the difference between growing poppies and refined heroin crossing borders. There are a few intermediate steps in-between.

Still, there is correlation of sorts and a good point-of-departure for a more in-depth analysis.

In 2008, UNODC reported that those same provinces of the north and north-east planted less than 1,000 hectares (966) of land to opium. Meanwhile, the American-controlled east fell from 8,312 to 1,152 and the central provinces from a very modest 337 hectares to 310. The west saw a modest growth of 3,000 hectares and the south blew up from 101,000 to 132,000 over this two year period.

I'll be interested in INTERPOL's reports on traffiking routes based upon the dynamics reflected here for 2008-not 2006.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

Opium is wepon of War and the gov which controlls its trafficking truely knows wat destruction it can bring.
It is is considered as the most effective and destructive wepon after a nuclear bomb. As it can spreads like venome once injected in a civilized society thus bringing it down .

Undoughtly Heroin is what the US is hovering and sacraficing its sodiers in the baarens of Afghanistan.
Experts predict that Afghanistan is producing Opium worth 300billion dollars and 30% more than the demand of the world.

They die in Iraq for Oil and they die in Afghanistan for Herroin. At the same time indirectly using heroin against Iran China and Pakistan inorder to weken them internally and then strike at the right moment by creating another plot simillar to 9-11.

Opium was the main cause of the assasination of the JFK followed the Vietnam war.

From the book Astucia - Opium Lords - Israel, the Golden Triangle and the Kennedy assassination (2002)

Synopsis
After President John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963, America became deeply
involved in the Vietnam War. Within a few short years, heroin addiction in America
reached epidemic proportions. In the background, Israel expanded its borders by force
and became a colonial empire ruling a nation of hostile Palestinian subjects. This
book reveals how Israel exploited the Western powers’ long history of opium
trafficking as a means of toppling the young American president. The following
points summarize the information presented:

Opium was the glue that held together the rivaling factions that conspired to
kill JFK.

The main factions in the conspiracy were Zionist instigators, the American
Mafia (headed by Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and his lieutenant, Santo
Trafficante), French-Corsican crime syndicates in Marseilles, France and
Southeast Asia, and the US military.

Heroin smuggling was first introduced to the American Mafia in the 1920s by
Jewish gangsters such as Meyer Lansky, "Legs" Diamond, and "Dutch"
Schultz.

One of the reasons President Johnson escalated US involvement in Southeast
Asia was because the American Mafia and French-Corsican heroin traffickers
needed a new source of opium for their heroin factories. Turkey had been the
main source, but its government was about to eradicate opium production.

Joseph Kennedy, Sr’s three sons were viewed as a new American dynasty that
threatened Israel’s plans to expand its borders. The Kennedy Dynasty would
last until 1985 if each son served two terms in the White House. It is widely
known that Joseph Kennedy Sr developed a strong loathing of Jews from his
business dealings with them in finance, Hollywood, and politics.

A decree was issued to kill JFK by Nahum Goldmann, founder of the World
Jewish Congress and its president in 1963.

Louis Bloomfield of Montreal was assigned to set up the coup d’état. He was
an influential international lawyer with an extensive espionage background
(e.g., British intelligence, Haganah, OSS, CIA).

Martin Agronsky and other Jewish journalists and media moguls collaborated
in the plot by pushing a false cover story that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed
JFK.

Right-wing extremists joined the coup initially but broke ranks and declared a
holy war against Jews immediately after JFK was killed.

The assassins were the lieutenants of French-Corsican heroin trafficker and
convicted Nazi collaborator, Auguste Joseph Ricord. He was living in
Argentina at the time of the assassination. Later he moved to Paraguay which
became a major hub for smuggling heroin into the United States.

The assassins were Lucien Sarti, François Chiappe, and Jean-Paul Angeletti—
all French-Corsicans.

Nixon was driven from office because he destroyed Ricord’s heroin cartel,
established détente with the Soviet Union, withdrew forces from Vietnam, and
ended the draft.
2

Under Nixon’s orders, police in Mexico City tried to arrest Lucien Sarti—the
man who fatally shot JFK in the head. When Sarti fled, Mexican police
opened fire. He died in a hail of bullets on April 27, 1972.

JFK made enemies within the military establishment and Israel when he
attempted to establish détente with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1963.
He also wanted to prevent Israel from acquiring the Bomb.

JFK was viewed as a threat to Israel because of pro-Hitler statements he wrote
in his 1945 diary (later published) and two books: Why England Slept and
Profiles in Courage.

President Johnson aggressively supported Israel because he and his wife were
secretly Jewish.

Texas—a former Spanish colony—became a haven for Sephardic Jews
expelled from Spain in 1492. Jewish migration continued from other countries
in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Once Kennedy was out of the way, President Johnson began to shift America’s
foreign policy dramatically. First of all, he increased military forces in South Vietnam
from 16,000 non-combat advisors to over 500,000 draftees by the time he left office
in January 1969. Secondly, he joined America and Israel at the hip by increasing
financial and military aid and becoming its ally during the Six Day War, an
aggressive land-grab that was immediately labeled illegal by the United Nations per
Resolutions 242 and later 338. Since then, one president after another has given Israel
virtually everything it wants. During Kennedy’s last year in office, in 1963, the
United States provided a mere $40 million per year to Israel. Within only two years,
President Johnson had increased that amount to $130 million per year, over three
times Kennedy’s allowance. Most of the Johnson money was for military buildup.
Since Kennedy’s death, the annual subsidy to Israel has grown into the billions
(presently about $3 billion per year), but the Johnson administration marked a true
turning point.1 In fact, American aid to Israel has far exceeded the total US payments
to reconstruct postwar Europe under the Marshall Plan.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

The Truth About the Sixties

From the day President Kennedy was killed, on November 22, 1963, until Lyndon
Baines Johnson stepped down as President in January 1969, the United States
government was under siege by hardened criminals, carpetbagger politicians, war
mongering generals, and ruthless friends of Israel. Their primary goals were threefold:
firstly, to fill their pockets with illicit drug money attained from the sale of heroin
within the United States and other countries; secondly, to prolong the Vietnam War as
a means of smuggling opium from Southeast Asia for large-scale production of heroin
which was ultimately smuggled back into the United States; and thirdly, to quietly
support Israel’s expansion of its borders into Arab-occupied territories. These three
things were the mainstay of American foreign policy throughout the 1960s. The
implementers of this policy were the same forces who killed President Kennedy,
Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and countless others.
Ironically, the situation began to change by an unlikely soul. He was a man hated by
many for his awkward ways, his lack of charisma, even the way he looked and talked.

He was not a handsome man or a skilled orator. He was a streetwise man who often
used vulgar language and privately expressed ethnic slurs in a seemingly bigoted
manner. But despite his outward character flaws, deep within his spiritual being this
man believed strongly in God, loved his mother, his wife and children, and was
extremely kind—on a personal level—to almost anyone in need. Unlike President
Kennedy, this man was not born into wealth; but like Kennedy, his former adversary,
this man had an innate understanding of right and wrong.
Richard M. Nixon assumed the Presidency in January 1969. His campaign had
included a war on drugs,3 as many presidents have done since; but Nixon evidently
took his anti-drug campaign a bit farther than his successors. He went after Auguste
Joseph Ricord, a French Corsican, former Nazi collaborator, and international heroin
smuggler.4 Ricord was protected by the hardened criminals, the carpetbagger
politicians, the war mongering generals, and the ruthless friends of Israel.5 The same
forces who had martyred America’s finest would stage a bloodless coup against
President Nixon for attempting to exorcise the demons from America’s possessed
soul.6
Nixon’s war on drugs was the impetus that led to Ricord’s arrest in Paraguay on
March 25, 1971.7 A diplomatic tug of war ensued between Paraguay and the United
States over custody of the wily heroin kingpin. Consequently, Ricord sat in a jail cell
in Tacumbu Penitentiary in Asunción, Paraguay for a year and a half while the two
governments disputed his custody. Finally in September 1972 Ricord was extradited
to the United States and prosecuted for conspiracy to smuggle narcotics into
America.8 On December 16, 1972 he was convicted of that crime, and on January 19,
1973, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $25,000.9
Nixon’s pursuit of Auguste Ricord may have been part of a broader plan to end the
war in Vietnam. By breaking up the international heroin cartel, Nixon destroyed one
of the main reasons for US involvement in Southeast Asia, but there were others. He
also re-opened relations with China and used that alliance as leverage to establish
détente between the United States and the Soviet Union in May of 1972.10 Nixon also
increased foreign aid to Israel dramatically; he gave the Jewish State about $1.61
billion from 1971 through 1973. That was a huge increase—approximately the same
amount that America had given Israel over its entire 22 year history (from 1948
through 1970).11 By doing this, Nixon divided his Jewish enemies. Essentially he
bought them off. Nixon further divided his enemies by pushing for a military victory
in Vietnam. In December of 1972 he began a relentless bombing campaign of North
Vietnam (known as the "Christmas bombing"). This aggressive approach divided the
military and was ultimately used to force North Vietnam into serious negotiations in
Paris for a peaceful solution to the war. As a result, a peace agreement was soon
reached. At that point Nixon withdrew American forces from Vietnam and ended the
draft.
It is significant that Nixon’s visit to the Soviet Union occurred just one month before
the Watergate burglary which occurred on June 17, 1972.12 The Soviet Union
continued to exist until December 1991, but Nixon essentially ended the Cold War in
May of 1972 when he and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev signed of the SALT I (the
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) agreement.
4
Although Nixon has been judged harshly by many, much about his character was
revealed in his farewell address to the White House staff on August 9, 1974:
… the greatness comes not when things go always good for you,
but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you
take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes,
because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever
know how magnificent it is to be at the highest mountain.
… We want you to continue to serve in Government, if that is
your wish. Always give your best, never get discouraged, never
be petty; always remember others may hate you, but those who
hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy
yourself.
… And so, we leave with high hopes, in good spirit and with deep
humility, and with very much gratefulness in our hearts. I can only
say to each and every one of you, we come from many faiths, we
pray perhaps to different gods, but really the same God in a
sense, but I want to say for each and every one of you, not only
will we always remember you, not only will we always be grateful
to you but always you will be in our hearts and you will be in our
prayers.
Thank you very much.
(President Richard M. Nixon13)
The story about to be told is not merely about the death of President John F. Kennedy,
it also answers many questions about President Richard M. Nixon, the Watergate
Scandal, the Vietnam War, the Six Day War, the corrupt American news media, and
the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict that ultimately led to terrorist attacks on America
on September 11, 2001. The most troubling aspect of this book is the cynical business
of opium smuggling by the Western powers, something that has been going on for
nearly two centuries. In fact the West fought two Opium Wars with China in the 19th
Century to force China to import opium.(Footnote 1) As a result, China developed a
serious addiction problem which continued until the communists took over in 1949
and banned all narcotics. But the practice went underground in the latter half of the
20th Century.14 Consequently, wealthy interests within the Western powers delegated
the smuggling of narcotics to international crime syndicates and espionage services.15
Furthermore, heroin smuggling and prostitution were introduced in the United States
in the 1920s by Jewish gangsters such as Meyer Lansky, "Legs" Diamond, and
"Dutch" Schultz. Those two enterprises had been ignored by the Italian Mafia because
of Sicilian traditions which forbade such practices. In the mid-1920s, heroin was
banned in the United States. In 1930 a Mafia war broke out regarding the illicit sale of
narcotics. Over sixty gangsters were killed and a new generation of leaders emerged
with little regard for the traditional code of honor. The leader of the new American
Mafia was the legendary Lucky Luciano who forged an alliance between the Italian
Mafia and Meyer Lansky's Jewish gangs. This alliance survived for almost 40 years
5
and became the dominant characteristic of organized crime in the United States in the
1960s and 70s.16 This book demonstrates that Israel exploited Meyer Lanksy’s heroin
smuggling connections in the United States and abroad as a means of toppling
President Kennedy.
To some this book may seem like a painful view of reality; to others it may seem like
divine truth; still others may deny the facts completely. Whatever the case may be, I
for one have learned that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

 

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The Motives

The primary motive behind the assassination was Kennedy’s efforts to establish
détente with the Soviet Union in the spring and summer of 1963; however, he was
apprehensive about how American Jews and the US military would react to a shift in
Cold War policy. He reportedly told Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko that there were
"two groups of the American population which are not always pleased when relations
between our two countries are eased." One was "ideological," the other "of a
particular nationality who think that, always and under all circumstances, the Kremlin
will support the Arabs and be an enemy of Israel. This group has effective means for
making improvement between our countries very difficult."17
In October of 1962 the United states discovered that the Soviet Union had been
supplying Cuba with nuclear missiles. A war of nerves ensued between the two
superpowers known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy insisted that the missiles be
removed, and ultimately, he prevailed; however, he was not boastful about his victory.
During the crisis the US generals wanted to attack Cuba, but Kennedy feared a US
assault would escalate into nuclear war. There was a great deal of tension between
Kennedy and the military at that time. In fact it is generally accepted among scholars
that one of the reasons that the nuclear stalemate ended peacefully is because both
Kennedy and Khrushchev feared a military coup might arise against Kennedy if a
settlement was not soon reached.18
In the months that followed, a genuine friendship developed between Kennedy and
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. By the spring of 1963, the two leaders had made
great progress towards ending the Cold War, limiting the nuclear arms race, and
signing a nuclear test ban treaty. Right-wing elements within the US military resisted
détente for ideological reasons.19 Israel opposed détente as well because they feared
the Kremlin and Washington were more interested in Arab oil than a Jewish state
located in a barren desert without natural resources or strategic interests of value to
either superpower. In short, détente would mark the beginning of the end for Israel as
a world power because neither superpower had a strategic interest in Israel.20
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy delivered a speech, Strategy of Peace, before
the graduating class at American University. Many refer to it as "The Peace Speech."
The Manchester Guardian called the American University speech "one of the greatest
state papers of all time." The speech was the most eloquent and powerful of
Kennedy’s career; it contained a spiritual ethos with a gripping message of hope for
mankind, but it was also practical. Here are a few excerpts from the Peace Speech:

… What kind of a peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do
we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by
American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the
security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind
of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that
enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better
life for their children—not merely peace for Americans but peace
for all men and women—not merely peace in our time but peace
for all time. …
… I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war
makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large
and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender
without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when
a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive
force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World
War.
It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced
by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and
soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations
yet unborn. …
… I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of peace and
good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not
deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite
discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and
immediate goal. …
…World peace, like community peace, does not require that each
man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in
mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful
settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between
nations, as between individuals, do not last forever. However
fixed our likes and dislikes may seem, the tide of time and events
will often bring surprising changes in the relations between
nations and neighbors.
So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war
need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by
making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help
all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly
toward it. …
In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet
Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and
genuine peace and in halting the arms race. Agreements to this
end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours—and
even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and
keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations,
which are in their own interest.
So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct
attention to our common interests and to the means by which
those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our
differences, at least we can help make the world safe for
diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is
that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. …
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We
do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation
of Americans has already had enough—more than enough—of
war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others
wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our
part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the
strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless
of its success.
Confident and unafraid, we must labor on—not toward a strategy
of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.
[END]
(JFK, American University, June 10, 1963)

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Opium traveling from southern Afghanistan through Tajikstan will carry a security-cost premium based on degrees of danger.

Not necessarily true - remember that the accusation from the West continues to be that the GoA is corrupt and facilitating the drug trade. In the North the warlords continue to hold sway, so even with production down, transportation of drugs would carry minimal risk given the complicity of both the GoA and Northern warlords in the trade.

Given weapons inflows from the North, and drugs the single largest Afghan 'product', 'drugs for weapons' represents an easy trade benefiting all parties.

But yes, I agree that without more recent numbers much of the discussion on greater emphasis on the Pakistani route and continued use of the Northern route, is speculation.

 

[roadrunner]

This thread has got a bit ridiculous.

We got one guy in denial claiming Afghanistan is all great and drugs aren't a problem meandering round in circles without a clue what he's babbling on about.

It's simple:



You do not get much clearer.