In Afghans fields the poppies grow.

The one and only good deed the Taliban managed, was the total elimination of the poppy crop. The invading troops did nothing to stop the rebirth of that 'cancer of the world'.
The drug commerce has again corrupted the country all the way to the top government officials.
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Despite the recent fanfare over the convening of Afghanistan's first elected Parliament in more than three decades, the rule of law is under attack by a ruthless organization of warlords and drug smugglers that spans the country and transcends its ethnic divisions. Narcotics trafficking isn't merely big, it's more than half the economy?-amounting to $2.7 billion annually, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)?-that is, 52 percent of the country's entire GDP.

And many of the underground industry's most important figures are said to be senior government officials in Kabul and the provinces. Amanullah Paiman, a newly elected member of Parliament from the far northern province of Badakhshan, has studied the country's drug problem and says Afghan government officials are involved in at least 70 percent of the traffic. "The chain of narcodollars goes from the districts to the highest levels of government," he says.

President Karzai's name has never been linked to the drug trade. His younger brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, a personal representative of the president based in Kandahar, is a different story. He was alleged to be a major figure by nearly every source who described the Afghan network to NEWSWEEK for this story, including past and present government officials and several minor drug traffickers. "He is the unofficial regional governor of southern Afghanistan and leads the whole trafficking structure," says the veteran Interior Ministry official.

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