Drug And Arms Trafficking In Afghanistan

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Analyzes the situation from 1973 to 2001. Posible solutions to problems created by drug and arms trafficking. Afghanistan black market economy (opium, heroin, arms) related to political & economic devastations. Civil unrest. Soviet invastion. U.S. backed revolt against Soviet rule. Drug eradication efforts. The Taliban. Impact of trafficking on other countries.

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"NARCOTICS AND ARMS TRAFFICKING IN AFGHANISTAN

This research paper describes and analyzes drug and arms trafficking in Afghanistan since 1973, places them in historical context, examines their effects outside of Afghanistan and discusses possible remedial solutions to the problems they have created.

Over the past thirty years, Afghanistan has sustained itself largely from the proceeds of a clandestine or black market economy based on the production, processing and export of opium, heroin and other narcotic drugs and the smuggling of arms and other goods. These activities have developed out of the devastation, political fragmentation and economic dislocation produced by nearly thirty years of civil unrest and the Soviet invasion and ten year occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989), and ..."

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