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On the recordDecember 10, 2013
If we can't conduct the kind of operations needed to reduce the poppy production, and if we don't have enough manpower now to fight this issue, what are we going to do next year and post-2014 to stop the illicit drug trade that generates over $100 million a year for terrorist groups?
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen raises concerns about drug trade funding terrorism in Afghanistan.

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