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August 10, 2009

US to Target Afghan Drug Lords
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In news from Afghanistan, fifty major Afghan drug traffickers with ties
to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list to be captured
or assassinated. The move marks a dramatic change to the US
counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan.



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