Pictured: RAF blow up world's biggest drugs haul worth £225 MILLION in Afghanistan

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The RAF have set a new world record by destroying the world's biggest drugs haul.

Those magnificent men in their flying machines blew up a 237 ton stash of cannabis in Afghanistan...

Pictured: RAF blow up world's biggest drugs haul worth £225 MILLION in Afghanistan desert


By Daily Mail Reporter
12th June 2008
Daily Mail



RAF Harrier jump jets have blown up the world's biggest drug haul in Afghanistan by dropping three 1,000lb bombs on a 237-ton stash of cannabis.

The haul - worth £225million and weighing more than 30 double-decker buses - was unearthed by the Special Boat Service and local commandos.

The drugs were first stuffed into grain sacks and buried in six trenches covering an area the size of two football pitches.



Attack: Smoke pours from a bombed trench full of drugs and, below, an RAF Harrier jet




Harriers then flew over the site near Kandahar and dropped their deadly payload.

Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

After the attack from Kandahar airfield, troops set fire to the remains with petrol.


Mind-boggling: Inside one of six trenches concealing a record 236 tons of hash and 2.5 tons of opium


Up in flames: The third of three illegal drug caches after being hit by 1000lb bombs from RAF Harrier jump jets then set ablaze by troops


Five tons of opium, worth £2million, was also found and destroyed.

Three people were arrested.

The previous record haul was 80 tons of cocaine in Columbia in 1998.

Afghanistan's deputy Interior Minister, Lieutenant General Abdul Hadi Khalid, said yesterday: 'This is a new world record in the global war on drugs.

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hermanntrude

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Sorry guys.... The propaganda's faulty. You don't turn dried cannabis leaves into heroin....

Woof!

the article never mentioned any such process. They just said that they destroyed 236 tons of hash (cannabis resin) and 2.5 tons of opium (which is related to heroin, i think)
 

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the article never mentioned any such process. They just said that they destroyed 236 tons of hash (cannabis resin) and 2.5 tons of opium (which is related to heroin, i think)
"...Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin...."
 

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Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

:lol: Maybe they meant the aftermath of the bombing would make heroin? lol
 

karrie

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perhaps what they meant was that they were trading it for heroin? It jumped out at me right away too as faulty info. Or, they were confused about the difference between hash and heroin.
 

Stretch

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dried cannabis into heroin???? 8O now I'm totally convinced that the taliban are another false flag like el qaida! LOL, dried cannabis into heroin........ what a bunch of wankers, and these dickheads are s'posed to be protecting us...right? where's me rifle..........
if ya believe that sh!t, I have a waterfront property in Australia for sale.....at low tide
 

Ariadne

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Aside from the fact that the facts are absurd ... Hash has been a part of the Afghanistan culture for centuries ... are we, or someone, now deciding that this should change? On what grounds? If they want to smoke hash, let them.