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In 2004, U.S.-contracted aircraft secretly sprayed harmless plastic granules over poppy fields in Afghanistan to gauge public reaction to using herbicides to kill the opium poppies that help fund the Taliban and al Qaida. Now the Bush administration is pressing to spray real herbicide against what's expected to be another record opium poppy crop, which is refined into heroin. » read more
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