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November 27, 2009 | The New Killing Fields? This Article contains Flash-Video

Gretchen Peters: The drug trade in Afghanistan is benefiting the insurgency, begging the question: What do Taliban leaders intend to do with the profits? The international intelligence community would be wiser to focus its efforts on identifying and disrupting flows of money to insurgent, extremist, and terror groups.

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August 9, 2012 | A New Approach to Decreasing Drug-related Violence

Policies put in place to reduce violence stemming from organized drugs, either by legalizing or suppressing drug flows, are ineffective. ++ Though many believe legalization will mitigate financial loses from organized crime, thus reducing drugs, smuggling will still persist in less robust states that suffer from ineffective law enforcement. ++ What is needed instead, is for states to strengthen

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October 15, 2008 | Afghanistan in a Downward Spiral

Even President Bush has now come to realize that Afghanistan is “the real frontline in the war on terror.” ++ America’s sixteen intelligence agencies agree that Afghanistan is on a “downward spiral.” ++ Sobering estimates say it will be five to ten years before Afghanistan is stabilized. ++ More troops are needed and if NATO allies are unwilling to send them, they should contribute monetarily.

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