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Drugs: US Weapon for Mass, Profitable Destruction

Drugs: US Weapon for Mass, Profitable Destruction
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Akil al-Sheikh Hussein

Nothing beats hypocrisy in war on terrorism but hypocrisy in war on drugs! The US claims it fights terrorism, while evidence shows that ever since the Afghani-Soviet war, attacks on New York and Washington, and wars from the so-called Arab Spring, terrorism is a US production invented and deployed in the service of invasion and conquering policies.

Afghanistan - the first country that the American aggression targeted in response to the suspicious 9/11 attack - is supposedly considered an essential hub of terrorism by the US, and now is an essential hub, along with Colombia in planting, producing, and exporting drugs.

Drugs: US Weapon for Mass, Profitable Destruction While studies revealed that revenues from Afghani drug dealing exceeded Iraqi oil revenues, it is admissible to say that wars of domination that cover planting, producing, and exporting drugs in Afghanistan and Colombia are no less dangerous, as observers believe, than those who aim at conquering oil and gas fields transferred to the rich consumer countries.
There are many conspiracy makers in the Afghani conflict - chiefly the US Army and NATO forces - who did not prevent planting Opium and turning it into Heroine in Afghanistan.
The result: production of this substance had multiplied 44 times since the US occupation in light of the phony programs that the occupation places to counter this epidemic.
The objectives that American decision-makers aim at include long-term goals related to corrupting humanity and completely destroying it, as senior American politicians admit.

Other objectives are direct, stipulating economic interests closely associated to current political plots: Afghani drug revenues are estimated at 140 billion dollars annually, which is a little under half of the Saudi oil revenues - that reached 288 billion dollars in 2012 - and 40 billion dollars more than the Qatari oil and gas revenues!

However, the share that Afghanis receive from these revenues is no more than 2%, which is 300 million dollars divided among corrupt executives in the government, mediators, farmers, land owners, and armed groups, while 139 billion and 700 million dollars go to Western and Gulf banks responsible for money-laundering!

In this context, it's clearly noted that the money from Afghani drugs effectively contribute to funding armed terrorist groups in Syria and other countries. Likewise, since a large portion of Afghani drugs are being consumed by addicts in Russia and in China at a lesser rate - where drugs lead to 40 thousand deaths annually -Russian officials considered that Afghani drugs are a new weapon of mass destruction pointed at Russia.

A strong disagreement between Russia and the US manifested on this note; Russia demanded to take the case to the Security Council and destroy drug fields and hundreds of labs processing these substances, while the US spoke of the difficulties of such actions, noting that its jets shell everything in Afghanistan except these drug fields.
The true paradox here is that the US doesn't respond to the Russian demand, although it reiterates that drugs fund terrorism, and yet claims to counter each of these epidemics.

However, what Russians refrained to say is that this weapon of mass destruction is also pointed at the US itself; the 37 thousand Americans - who are killed from drugs that are primarily transferred from Colombia to the US by planes and submarines - despite the high capacities that the American watchdogs possess, are the least of the American officials' priorities.

The fuss of the US combatting drugs in Colombia and other Latin American countries is but a mask for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to restore power and establish military bases in the Southern continent.
Exceeding drug addicts, the number one victim to this US epidemic is the millions of farmers who were forced to leave normal agriculture because of restructuring sponsored by international financial organizations. Drug agriculture is considered the only kind that these organizations allow because of its role in funding banks and pushing humanity to mass destruction.

Source: al-Ahed News, translated and edited by moqawama.org

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