Willkommen in der Heroin-Hölle! Das Bordmagazin der afghanischen Fluglinie Safi Airways verzichtet auf Schönfärberei. Im SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Interview erklärt der deutsche Chefredakteur Christian Marks, warum die Passagiere nichts anderes lesen wollen als die reine Wahrheit.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Drogenabhängige, Hundekämpfe und Trümmer-Sightseeing - bei dem, was man im Bordmagazin der Safi Airways über Kabul liest, möchte man am liebsten sofort umkehren. Hat sich Ihr Auftraggeber schon beschwert?

Marks: Nein, der ist absolut zufrieden. Wer mit Safi Airways nach Afghanistan fliegt, ist kein typischer Tourist, sondern arbeitet meist dort. Das sind Diplomaten, Mitarbeiter von Hilfsorganisationen oder Sicherheitsfirmen, denen muss man nichts vormachen.

spiegel.de

In a new policy brief by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Ambassador Marc Grossman, former U.S. Undersecretary for State for Political Affairs, argues that the U.S. should try converting opium into biofuel and transform Afghanistan’s destructive cash crop into a renewable energy source. Afghanistan’s massive and ever-growing poppy fields, if processed as fuel, can help Afghanistan cover its own growing energy needs.

dirt.asla.org

Federal agents and Bexar County sheriff's deputies, in separate operations beginning Saturday, have seized at least $1 million worth of heroin destined for the San Antonio market.

In two of the investigations, the Bexar County Sheriff's narcotics unit arrested four people Tuesday and seized more than $320,000 worth of heroin and cocaine, officials said.

mysanantonio.com

In Berlin-Charlottenburg haben Polizisten einen Elfjährigen beim Handeln mit Heroin erwischt. Der aus einer Jugendeinrichtung entwischte Junge war den Beamten bei einer Kontrolle auf einem U-Bahnhof aufgefallen.

spiegel.de
rp-online.de

Iran's eastern provinces border with the world's number one opium producer, Afghanistan, and the politically volatile Pakistan which have both turned into a safe haven for terrorists and drug traffickers who seek to smuggle their cargos into Iran or transit them to Europe.

farsnews.com

It's overcast in Possilpark, one of the most deprived areas of Glasgow. Outside the pound shops and bookmakers on the high street, Barbara Harris, founder of US charity Project Prevention, is giving out flyers. She hands one to James, a wiry man in his 20s. "I'm from a nonprofit organisation," she tells him. "If you know any drug addicts or alcoholics who could get pregnant, we will pay them £200 to be on long-term birth control."

guardian.co.uk
old zach

TALIBAN fighters are burying dirty needles with their bombs in a bid to infect British troops with HIV, The Sun can reveal.

thesun.co.uk

The drug was found stashed inside a truck on a highway in eastern Turkey's Van province, Xinhua reported citing a statement from the Anatolia news agency.

turkmenistannews.net