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Neil Abercrombie: we may not be financing what is necessary for either troop movements or political stability in Afghanistan, but I can…

On the recordDecember 8, 2003
we may not be financing what is necessary for either troop movements or political stability in Afghanistan, but I can assure the gentleman, I am sorry to say that financing is nonetheless taking place in Afghanistan except it is going to be for terror. We now have more poppies being grown, more heroin being processed, and more trading in heroin than ever before in the history of Afghanistan, than ever before in the history of any nation on the face of the Earth. I should say any region on the face of the Earth, because clearly Afghanistan does not rate the name of nation now in terms of commerce and stability and political equilibrium that we associate with the term. The only thing that is stable, the only thing that is growing, the only thing that is expanding, the only thing that is a sure thing in Afghanistan is there is more heroin being traded for more money that is going to find its way into the pockets of those who are financing terrorism.
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Addressing the issue of financing terrorism and drug trade in Afghanistan.

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