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...They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...trade. But they're not doing anything about it, antinarcotics experts tell TIME. Several Kabul diplomats familiar with U.S. military operations say that while carrying out searches in eastern and southern Afghanistan--opium-growing areas that are also Taliban strongholds--U.S. soldiers have found hidden caches of narcotics, crude heroin-processing labs and convoys racing across the desert with bundles of hashish and opium, headed for Europe and Central Asia. "If these drug convoys have any connection with terrorists, special forces will move in," says a Western diplomat. "Otherwise the attitude is, 'Hey, it's not our problem.'" Officially...
...that the Taliban are heavily involved in drug trafficking," says Wais Yasini, counter-narcotics adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "How else do you account for the source of their money?" This year, after a bumper crop of opium poppies, say U.N. officials, Afghanistan became the world's largest heroin producer, with an estimated $1.2 billion in profits...
...couldn’t breathe, and the officers removed a white paper they had observed in his mouth. The paper turned out to be a Dunkin Donuts napkin with ten plastic bags labeled “On Fire” which contained a brownish substance, later determined to be heroin...
...latest step in the Canadian drug war may just be surrender. National health officials last week approved the first legal "safe injection site" in North America. Heroin and cocaine users at the future facility in Vancouver's drug-riddled Downtown Eastside neighborhood, will be able to shoot up under the watchful eye of a nurse and then relax in a "chill-out room" without any interference from police. A Bush Administration official ripped the initiative as "state-sponsored suicide." But Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell, an ex--drug squad cop who championed the injection site, shoots back: "I think...