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Blatant misrepresentation. By 2000 the Taliban had banned opium production and by 2001,

No, that's a blatant misrepresentation. Read this story:

I found it a little odd that I'd never heard of the METimes... until I looked here. I'm sure that a publication called the Middle East Time based in Washington D.C. is not at all biased... ;-)

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Blatant misrepresentation. By 2000 the Taliban had banned opium production and by 2001,

No, that's a blatant misrepresentation. Read this story:

I found it a little odd that I'd never heard of the METimes... until I looked here. I'm sure that a publication called the Middle East Time based in Washington D.C. is not at all biased... ;-)

CONTACT US Middle East Times 1133 19th Street, NW Suite 871 Washington, DC USA Telephone: (202) 898-8180 Editor: Claude Salhani claude@metimes.com Managing Editor: Grahame Bennett gbennett@metimes.com Email us at: contact@metimes.com editor@metimes.com subscribe@metimes.com advertise@metimes.com

Blatant misrepresentation. By 2000 the Taliban had banned opium production and by 2001,

No, that's a blatant misrepresentation. Read this story:

Opium cultivation increased significantly each year under Taliban rule until they issued decrees in July 2000 banning poppy cultivation. The ban became effective after that year's crop was safely harvested. The Taliban took no steps to apprehend drug traffickers or seize stored opium, precursor chemicals, morphine, or heroin. Instead, the Taliban were selling their own opium at newly inflated prices and allowed others to sell, process, and transport drugs, with the Taliban taking their usual fees in taxes and protection money.

The ban that eliminated the 2001 crop had nothing to do with curtailing the drug trade. Heroin labs remained active and shipments and seizures of heroin coming out of Afghanistan actually increased compared to the year before the ban, although some of those shipments came from areas controlled by the Northern Alliance, who were also deeply involved in poppy cultivation.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration said the ban was probably an attempt to increase the price of opium, which declined following a series of bumper crops. The Taliban also hoped to gain international recognition of their government beyond Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Perhaps Hawaii, like the Netherlands, would care to wait until after 2011 and see how Israel's electric car initiative works out. It seems promising.

Gee you sound unhappy. Did your Mom catch you smoking in the basement again and flush your stash?

Maybe you should take a nice trip to the United Arab Emirates so you can chill out.

P.S. Quit hating on Americans. It makes us want to taser you even more than we already do.

Let's bitch about Gitmo. Only one pillow per prisoner, the temperature is sligtly out of whack, the food is unnaceptable -- too much fat, they're getting chubby. Why not write a song about real torture instead of panties on someones head and loud Chili Pepper music?

Did anybody else follow the links which point to the source of the article?

The original slashdot story link
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develo ps_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php

which has a link to a story
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/sam sungs-200000-machine-gun-sentry-robot

which in turn links to
http://www.gorobotics.net/The-News/Military/South- Korea-Develops-Machine%11Gun-Sentry-Robot/

that has a link to probably to the original story at
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060 928-042215-5882r
by AFP

The original doesn't have an image nor video but as story it's far better than the article (rip off) mentioned in slashdot story.

Wow, I haven't had to go through 3 blogs to get to the source article before. Here it is: the article.

There is no Israel

-AD

Before. After. Which do you prefer?

British intelligence still stands by it.

Too bad nobody else does.