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Distro - War On Drugs In Afghanistan 

Paolo Pellegrin 

In Afghanistan opium fuels everything from the culture,
the politics, the economy and the resurgent Taliban fighters. Paolo Pellegrin went to the remote southern provinces where the war on drugs, alongside that with the insurgency is raging. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.) is working in Afghanistan alongside the Afghan National Interdiction Unit, carrying out raids in remote villages. Links are being made between the resurgence of the Taliban and the drug industry, as both have nothing to gain from the area being controlled by central government. With the large amounts of money... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Nangahar province. May 2006. A helicopter used by... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Badakshan. June 2006. Poppy field. 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province, south east of Jalalabad.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province, south east of Jalalabad.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. DEA and Afghan interdiction... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. DEA and Afghan interdiction... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province, southeast of Jalalabad.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. The arrest of a suspect... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. Afghan soldier carries... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. Women and children... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province, southeast of Jalalabad.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Jalalabad. May 2006. DEA agent with arrested Afghani... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. DEA and Afghan interdiction... 

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AFGHANISTAN. May 2006. Nangahar province. DEA and Afghan interdiction... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. Stock piled drugs - opium, heroin... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. Stock piled drugs - opium, heroin... 

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AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Badakshan province. A farmer collects... 

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AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Badakshan province. A poppy field in... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Street scene. 

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AFGHANISTAN. Badakshan. June 2006. Farmers working in a poppy... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Badakhshan. June 2006. Afghan national police units... 

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AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Afghan police eradicate poppy fields... 

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AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Afghan police eradicate poppy fields... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Badakhshan. June 2006. Afghan national police units... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Drug addicts smoking heroin under... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A drug addict sleeps on the pavement... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A drug addict sleeps on the pavement... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Drug addicts smoking heroin under... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Drug users shooting up heroin... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A drug addict is medicated by... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. 2006. A drug addict at a local non-governmental... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A poster warning against the use... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. Heroin addicts behind bars in Kabul's... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A heroin addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A heroin addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. Heroin addicts suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A drug addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A drug addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A heroin addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A drug addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A heroin addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. Heroin addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A drug addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A drug addict suffering withdrawal... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A woman drug addict receives counseling... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. Opium seized during a joint DEA... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A sterilizied kit for I.V. drug... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A woman drug addict receives counseling... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 29th, 2006. People look around a building... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 2006. A shop owner looks at his destroyed... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 29th, 2006. A policeman in front of a... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. May 29th, 2006. People look inside a building... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A woman begging at dawn in central... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Homeless couple. 

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AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Playing football in an empty swimming... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Homeless people wake up at dawn.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Electoral posters in central Kabul.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. Underground walkway in Kabul's... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. June 2006. A Mecca poster in an underground... 

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In the Old city in Kabul, Afghanistan. June 2006 
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