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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — U.S. forces are dealing a blow to the Taliban’s multimillion-dollar opium business by securing deals with farmers to plant legal crops, the commanding general in charge of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan said Friday.
Maj. Gen. Richard Mills said during a video conference call at Camp Pendleton that farmers who own half of the poppy fields in Afghanistan’s key poppy-growing area have pledged to not reseed next year. Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the world’s opium, the main ingredient in heroin.
The Associated Press
