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<title><![CDATA[UN: Taliban could clear 500 million Dollar from 2008 drug trade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press: The Taliban and other warlords could clear almost half a billion dollars from Afghanistan's opium trade this year &#8212; money that will help finance insurgent attacks, the U.N.'s drug czar said. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime, said the Taliban also appears to be stockpiling the drug to manipulate its price, after several years in which production surpassed world demand. Afghanistan produces over 90 percent of the world's opium, the raw ingredient for making heroin.]]></description>
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