Posted AT 12:05 AM EDT on 03/05/08
Solving Afghanistan's poppy problem
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — The pilot of the British army helicopter was taking me on an exceedingly fast, wildly pitching, zigzag trajectory across the sun-baked fields of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.
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