| Publication date: 2/7/2009; 8:58:00 PM GMT. In this picture taken on February 5, 2009 Afghan policemen destroy poppy fields in Nadi Ali district, one of the Afghanistan's top opium producers in Helmand province. In the heart of Afghanistan's opium-farming area, police use red tractors to churn up a small field of young green opium plants in a large sandy desert. Such action would have been inconceivable a year ago because of attacks from Taliban-linked gunmen protecting their share of the impoverished nation's illegal four-billion-dollar-a-year opium trade. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai |
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