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...Drug Money Re Tim McGirk's article "Terrorism's Harvest" [Aug. 9]: President Bush says he has made America safer. But Afghanistan has been in chaos for years, and Iraq is a new breeding ground for terrorists. Now we learn that the Taliban is back and the opium trade is funding al-Qaeda. It is time that Americans look beyond tough talk. Matthew Ball Pittsburgh...
...Qaeda's Poppy Profits Tim McGirk's article "terrorism's harvest" [Aug. 9] described how heroin trafficking is now "a principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists." It's quite ironic that just a few months before we "liberated" Afghanistan by bombing it and sending in troops, we gave a $43 million grant to the Taliban for its splendid job in cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement, "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness...
Even after the Spitzian attempt for a record harvest of gold had evaporated into the blazing heat, fans were too invested in the sheer breadth of Phelps' program to abandon their new Olympic hero. They continued to stream in, not just into the Aquatic Center in Athens but also via NBC's coverage. The pool venue sold out every day, according to organizers, and by Day Three, TV ratings exceeded those from the Sydney Games, no doubt owing to the unfolding drama of Phelps' staggering effort. --By Alice Park/Athens
...McGirk's ARTICLE "Terrorism's Harvest" [Aug. 9] described how heroin trafficking is now "a principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists." It's quite ironic that just a few months before we "liberated" Afghanistan by bombing it and sending in our troops, we gave a $43 million grant to the Taliban for its splendid job in cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement: "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought...
...Federal Security Service (FSB), Sergei Ignatchenko, insisted last Wednesday. Transport Minister Igor Levitin dismissed the idea that the tragedies might be linked. "They belong to different air companies, and were flying to different locations," he told journalists. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin appeared on state TV, discussing the harvest and the new school year. By Friday, the official line was unraveling. The FSB soon confirmed what Russian security experts had suspected from the start - a powerful explosive, hexogen, had been found in the wreckage of both planes. As little as 400 g of the explosive powder would be enough to bring...