2.5 Tons Mariyuana Found in School

Troops of Afghanistan and coalition soldiers find and destroy mariyuana in a school that is not used in southern Afghanistan.
It was delivered spokespersons United States military, Colonel Jerry O'Hara, Sunday (21/12). He describes the school in the District Arghestan, Kandahar Province, is prohibited substances as warehouse so that the attacks are attacks against "the future of all the people of Afghanistan."

"No students or teachers in the school when the material is found illegal. All the furniture in the school have been removed from the classroom and placed in the page school. Number of school furniture that shows the likelihood is not used for a long time, "said U.S. military statement.

Added, the school building that contains not less than 2.5 tons mariyuana and a large room contains the seeds mariyuana. Army and then burning the plant is prohibited.

Afghanistan is the largest poppy producer in the world, which is the basic material heroin. However, when the U.S. and Western countries trying to help Afghanistan eliminate farm opiumnya, more and more farmers switch to plant mariyuana less attention from the government.

Supporting Taliban

UN officials in Afghanistan and said, trade forbidden materials that are used to support the Taliban resistance, by "geld" of the farmers and also to protect the route-smuggling route and at harvest.

In last June, police antinarkotika Afghanistan confiscate and destroy 237 tons of hashish in Kandahar Province, which is estimated to be worth 400 million U.S. dollars. Seizure is believed to the largest seizure of the substance.

A combination of international troops in Afghanistan last month and also destroy facilities-making substances prohibited substances in the province of Kandahar and destroy another 40 tons of hashish.

Meanwhile, in Zabul province, coalition troops kill four armed people and captured five suspects during operations Saturday. Production is intended to pursue followers of the Taliban who know the point mengoordinasikan delivery of weapons and bomb attacks in the streets. (AP / OKI)
Source: Kompas