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

U.S. 30000 Send Additional Troops to Afghanistan

Head of the U.S. Military Joint Staff Mr. Mike Mullen, Sunday (21/12) in Kabul said, the Pentagon would send additional troops to 20000-30000 Afghanistan in the summer of the future.

Thus, the number of U.S. soldiers who are in the U.S. will reach 60,000 personnel. This additional troops, including medical teams, aviator, and others.

This year is the year for the heaviest U.S. military in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001 in order to suppress Taliban groups, the suspected leader of the network to protect the radical al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

U.S. soldiers face challenges suicide bomb, the explosion of various roads, the more intense, and the Taliban has combatant to infiltrate into the villages in Afghanistan, and even almost reached Kabul, the heart of Afghanistan.

"Taliban extremists and the more difficult to overcome. They have not won the war, but they have increased the level of violence. We are very focused in this case. Thus the addition of troops is very important to give people a sense of security to Afghanistan," Mullen said in a press conference in Kabul.

Mullen said, adding the troops after this is done, only improvements in governance and Afghan situation, the economy will be the possibilities level rebellion.

Previously, the army commander in Afghanistan has requested 20,000 additional troops to help Canadian and British troops in two provinces outside Kabul, and in the South region.

Meanwhile, the U.S. also will send teams phylum mountain (Mountain Division Force) to the two provinces outside Kabul, Logar and Wardak. In both provinces, the number of militant increased since last year. In addition, the U.S. Defense Minister Robert Gates has also approved the delivery flight brigade some time in the future.

According to Mullen, Afghanistan never led by a strong central government, and the U.S. will ask for community groups in Afghanistan to play a larger role for strategy in the future.

He mentions the U.S. goals in Afghanistan as appropriate, and said, the U.S. long-term vision is that Afghanistan can govern itself, to respect international law, and provide welfare and security to the people.
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Source: AP