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Afghans seize 'largest drug haul'

by Sanjay Jha | June 11, 2008 at 09:07 pm

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Afghan police have seized biggest ever drug cache of 237 tonnes along with three men. The drug was believed to be belonging to Taleban who were intending to exchange for purchaisng lethan weapons. Estimated to account for 90% of world's opium, Afghanistan has been criticised by theinternational community for not doing enough to tackle drugs -especially the opium trade.

Afghan police working with British special forces have uncovered a drugs stash of 237 tonnes of hashish.

Afghan and British officials say they believe it to be the world's biggest seizure of drugs in terms of weight.

The drugs were found hidden in trenches in Kandahar province on Monday. The haul was so large that British jets bombed it to destroy the hashish.

Nato's top general in Afghanistan said the find would seriously cripple the Taleban's ability to buy weapons.

'Welcome boost'

Afghan and British officials said the hashish had a value of more than $400m (£203m).

The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the hashish weighed as much as 30 double-decker London buses.

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René

at 21:59 on June 11th, 2008

Obvious that opium would be traded for weapons. If Afghan supplies 90 percent of the world's opium, what did dealers do when that was all shut down in Afghanistan? Other reports estimated that the Afghan opium crop was quite a bit more than demand.

So sad that Afghani Hash would be used to buy guns, etc.