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March 22, 2007

By the Numbers

Number of different (and often conflicting) land registries in Helmand:            17

Arrests by the British-supported Criminal Justice Task Force since May 2005: 830

Percent that resulted in a conviction:                                                           42%

Estimated years of opium exports that traffickers have stored in reserve:       4

                                                                                    Source: The Guardian

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 Number of Germans who have died in Afghanistan:                                       18

Percent of Germans who want to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan:         57%

Percent who want to increase troop levels:                                                    4%

                                                                                Source: Angus Reid poll

 

Annual bribes paid by per Afghan household, estimated by Integrity Watch: $100

Approximate percent of per capita income this represents:                        20%

Percent of Afghans who said corruption had little effect on them:              45%

Percent who say the current government is most corrupt in two decades:   60%

                                                                        Source: Integrity Watch

 

Men reporting to Izzatullah Wasifi, director-general of the General Independent Administration of AntiCorruption and Bribery:                                  84

Years Wasifi spent in a Las Vegas jail:                                               4

Price for which he tried to sell 650g of heroin to an undercover cop:  $65,000

Street value of this heroin in 1987:                                             $2,000,000

                                                                                                     Source: IHT

Posted by Carl Robichaud on March 22, 2007 at 05:40 PM in By the Numbers, Opium |

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