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Washington Times
March 25, 2008
Pg. 17
KABUL — Around 100 police officers on Afghanistan's poppy eradication force were killed in the line of duty over the past year, an official said yesterday.
Gen. Doud Doud, who heads the Interior Ministry's counternarcotics police, also said that about 90 percent of the country's poppies are grown in dangerous regions where insurgents hold sway and the government has little reach.
Police poppy eradication teams — whose work brings them to remote and dangerous areas of the country — are often attacked by insurgents or farmers angry about their profitable crop being destroyed, leading to the force's high number of casualties.
March 25, 2008
Pg. 17
KABUL — Around 100 police officers on Afghanistan's poppy eradication force were killed in the line of duty over the past year, an official said yesterday.
Gen. Doud Doud, who heads the Interior Ministry's counternarcotics police, also said that about 90 percent of the country's poppies are grown in dangerous regions where insurgents hold sway and the government has little reach.
Police poppy eradication teams — whose work brings them to remote and dangerous areas of the country — are often attacked by insurgents or farmers angry about their profitable crop being destroyed, leading to the force's high number of casualties.