Zone/911 - 24 October 2001

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:

Sure, we'll blame the Taliban for future tragedies. Just
> as we've been blaming them for drug exports from Afghanistan. Tony Blair
> was at the forefront of the Taliban-drug linkage. And all we have to do to
> believe this is to forget the UN Drug Control Programme's announcement last
> week that opium production in Afghanistan has fallen by 94 per cent,
> chiefly due to Mullah Omar's prohibition in Taliban-controlled areas. Most
> of Afghanistan's current opium production comes - you've guessed it - from
> our friends in the Northern Alliance. 

Blair was quite slippery with his remarks. He lied. 
He tried to appeal to the ignorant public, he blamed the drug problem in
England on the Taliban. 

Just like these alt.news articles. Slippery,  lies. 

It's a propaganda battle. Hey, maybe we really are at war, the truth
rotting like a corpse in the papered fields of shit.