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Sibel Edmonds & the Neocons' Turkish Gravy-Train
Essential to understanding why the war on drugs is a joke. Also essential to understanding why the war on terror is a joke. There are obscene amounts of money to be made in the drug trade, and it isn't the poppy farmers who are making it. The heroin supply chain cannot exist without official protection and corruption, in allied states like Turkey and Pakistan, and in our own country.
