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Military opposes spraying poppies; Bush seeks to kill Afghan drug crop.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 25-MAR-02 		Format: Online - approximately 789 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Military opposes spraying poppies; Bush seeks to kill Afghan drug crop.(PAGE ONE)

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Byline: Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The U.S. military is opposing Bush administration plans to conduct crop eradication in Afghanistan, where poppy cultivation in the coming weeks will net millions of dollars for Taliban and al Qaeda drug runners, U.S. officials say.

The military officials, including representatives of the U.S. Central Command, have argued in interagency meetings that attacking Afghanistan's poppy fields is a nonmilitary function that should be left to others.

Proponents of the effort, in the White House and State Department, want the Pentagon to send special aircraft to drop herbicide on Afghanistan's poppy fields before the opium-producing plants are harvested in the next four to six weeks.

"This is asymmetrical warfare, and it would...

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