Mark Souder: “He is a real hero in our books. I think we are all very impressed when we left, and we told him that. And I think the…”

“He is a real hero in our books. I think we are all very impressed when we left, and we told him that. And I think the other thing that we have to look at, an AID program and foreign policy programs need to be geared toward economic development, infrastructure improvements. And what is happening here is that if you leave it to their devices in working with the jungle, that is where the terrorism is. If the towns and the regular government give up the area, then we lose the war. Let me just trace a very interesting article in the Union Leader back in February 26, an article, and I give him a lot of credit for bringing this out, and I believe that they are committed to this in a very strong way, Sissy Taylor, ``Cocaine's Deadly Journey, Trip to New Hampshire Long and Costly.'' Just go through a little bit of how it all works. Coca leaves are bundled. Again you have the field. Coca leaves are bundled into bags. The bags are brought to pits where the processing begins. This is the pit. This is about 4- by 12-foot long. The bottom is lined with a filtering canvas. They dump the leaves in, add lime and kerosene or diesel fuel, sulfuric acid, then grind them together with the leaves. A paste is then formed and dried and then washed again with either ether, diesel fuel, or kerosene and then washed again. At this point it becomes coca base.…”