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shraby

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1. When the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan, they forbade growing poppies

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 11:00 AM

Nov 2017

for opium. That was the message we got from the news media/government during the beginning of the Afghanistan war.

Now we're getting this message, a complete 180 from what was supposedly true a few years ago. WTH????
They have opium labs???

One is true, the other has to be propaganda. Which is which?

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When the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan, they forbade growing poppies shraby Nov 2017 #1