Distracted by Iraq, the U.S. only belatedly began serious counter-narcotics and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.
The kingdom has been a front-line ally in the wars on terror and narcotics.
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One of the reasons that violent gangs and narcotics abuse flourish in Mexico .
Their power grew as the US stepped up anti-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and Florida.
The State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) awarded the contract.
It requires hospitalization with nothing to eat or drink, hydration and narcotics to control pain.
We must fight the narcotics scourge at every level, but especially the agricultural sector.
Acosta pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of racketeering, narcotics trafficking and money laundering.
This week, Mr Romero acknowledged that a budget had been set aside for anti-narcotics intelligence.
Washington did furnish some weapons, particularly helicopters, but use of this equipment was restricted to eradicating narcotics.
One former prosecutor compared the financial crisis to international narcotics trafficking, and insider trading to street-level drug dealing.
"Nor is there a large-scale import network, " says Bruce Hawkins, Hong Kong's senior inspector in the narcotics bureau.
He later worked as a federal narcotics agent in Turkey and Mexico and, finally, Arizona, where he retired.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Mr Soros said that the narcotics trade threatened stability in many countries.
This has driven the United States to finance and train a new counter-narcotics battalion of the Colombian army.
In Thailand, for example, Obama plans to discuss U.S. cooperation a counter-narcotics issues, terrorism and some trade matters.
Laos, one of the poorest countries in Asia, has long been pressed by donors to get tough on narcotics.
According to Afghan Counter Narcotics Minister Khodaidad, the figure is now far greater.
There are better, more migraine-specific drugs available without the addictive risk of narcotics.
Officers from the Narcotics Bureau searched and seized documents from two different locations.
British and US counter-narcotics official argue, though, that there was never any chance of a quick replacement for opium.
The latest seizure is the third major counter-narcotics success for HMS Iron Duke off South America in recent months.
She formerly worked on the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
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The authorities are forming a new anti-narcotics unit -- but have difficulty finding willing recruits to even staff it.
"Eliminating narcotics cultivation and trafficking in Afghanistan will require a long-term national and international commitment, " said the State Department.
Yet it is precisely such achievements that produce the most scepticism about counter-narcotics.
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Mexican officials proudly trumpet that seizures of all kinds of illegal narcotics were higher last year than in 1998.
This also happens to be where the American-trained anti-narcotics battalion is currently stationed.
And what that says is that you can prosecute in federal court the leaders, organizers, supervisors of a narcotics organization.
William Bach, a State Department counter-narcotics official, said drug trafficking "just doesn't seem to be the major resource for al-Qaeda".
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