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Middle
East:
Lawless
Iraq
Becoming
Key
Drug
Corridor,
INCB
Says
5/13/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/386/iraq.shtml
High levels of violence and
instability, along with porous borders, are drawing drug traffickers to
Iraq, the International Narcotics Control Board said Thursday. The
country, under US military occupation since April 2003, is becoming a "key
route" for heroin coming from another country occupied by US troops since
December 2001, Afghanistan, the agency complained, saying it was "alarmed"
by the development.
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incised papaver specimens (opium poppies)
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According to the INCB, drugs
are transported through Iraq and into Jordan, where they join traditional
drug trafficking routes into Europe. Jordan has seized "large quantities"
of drugs on the Iraqi border – and not just Afghan heroin and opium.
Jordan has also seized "a significant amount" of hashish and amphetamine-type
stimulants, the agency said.
The development of drug trafficking
in conflict-torn regions like Iraq is a no-brainer, said INCB president
Hamid Ghodse in an interview with the BBC. "Whether it is due to
war or disaster, weakening of border controls and security infrastructure
make countries into convenient logistic and transit points, not only for
international terrorists and militants, but also for traffickers," he said.
Although Iraqi authorities
and the US military have their hands full combating a full-blown, double-barreled
insurgency, they shouldn't forget about the war on drugs, Ghodse said.
"You cannot have peace, security, and development without attending to
drug control," he said.
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Issue #386
-- 5/13/05
Editorial:
Paying
for
Propaganda
|
Feature:
Marijuana
Remains
Legal
in
Alaska
|
Feature:
Major
Russian
Drug
Reforms
on
Verge
on
Being
Reversed
|
Feature:
ONDCP
Student
Drug
Testing
Road
Show
Dogged
by
"Truth
Squads"
|
Announcement:
DRCNet/Perry
Fund
Event
to
Feature
US
Rep.
Jim
McDermott,
June
1
in
Seattle
|
Sentencing:
House
Passes
Orwellian
"Anti-Gang"
Mandatory
Minimums
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Cocaine:
Connecticut
House
Passes
Bill
to
Eliminate
Crack/Powder
Disparities
|
Pain:
Boston
Congressman
Wants
Nationwide
Ban
on
Oxycontin
|
Pain:
ABC's
Nightline
Gives
Sympathetic
Look
at
Pain
Treatment
vs.
Prohibition
|
Prisons:
Sex
Abuse
of
Federal
Inmates
by
Guards
"A
Significant
Problem,"
Justice
Department
Says
|
Initiatives:
Denver
Marijuana
Initiative
Submitted
for
Approval
|
Initiatives:
Michigan
Marijuana
Initiative
Effort
Gets
Underway
|
Middle
East:
Lawless
Iraq
Becoming
Key
Drug
Corridor,
INCB
Says
|
Asia:
Taiwan
Considers
Syringe
Access
to
Reduce
AIDS
Spread
|
Caribbean:
"Ganja
Planter"
Lament
Tops
the
Charts
in
Trinidad
&
Tobago
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
|
Job
Listing:
Outreach
Coordinator,
Coalition
for
Higher
Education
Act
Reform
(DRCNet)
|
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The
Reformer's
Calendar
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