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Yes it is true the production of heroin has gone up, due to the relative lawlessness in post taliban afghanistan after the utter repression that country experienced under the taliban.
But to suggest that the CIA are somehow involved with heroin production or heroin dealing is utterly ridiculous, you crazy conspiracy theorists need to learn to be at least somewhat credible when you criticise the U.S.
There is indeed legitimate criticism of the U.S. administration, but outside of the US this criticism often merges with blatant anti-americanism. Which is what gets my goat.
I also live in Brussels and for my part the criticism that I tend to encounter is often a direct attack on american 'stupidity' etc...
Perhaps in the more polite political/diplomatic circles that you socialise with the criticism is less moronic, but among 'normal' people it is less so.
I would suspect most either simply react to the beligerence which most of our countrymen regularly demonstrate as tourists over here (which disgusts me as well and only embarrasses our national character more than our leaders are already doing), or else they are merely applying the improper term to describe the level of misinformation upon which many Americans are heard to proclaim this or that about other nations and people without having any firsthand personal experience of those nations or people.
Case in point is the ridiculous campaign to rename french fries "freedom fries" and other such examples of idiocy. That, you might agree, does not speak very highly of our country.
Whereabouts in Brussels do you live and have you been here long?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=CIA+heroin+connection&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
Lots of sources there.
Simply because its not discussed in mainstream media means that it doesnt happen. Conspiracy theory has long been a means of whitewashing illicit backchannel activity. Power politics is by its very nature conspiratorial.
All the more reason to continue seeking to expose such dealings, which the naive majority are too content to dismiss without the slightest scrutiny.
Why link to them if you don't believe in their veracity?
Treason is a crime against the people and government of one's own country. If our government was overthrown by some sort of dictator then fighting against him would still be classed as treason, however that is very unlikely to happen, but if it meant getting rid of Blair would it matter anyway?
The point I'm trying to make is that the charge of treason is not a black and white issue. Had those men taken arms in the UK against UK forces in an effort to overthrow our democracy and install a dictatorship, I think most people would agree on the charge of treason.
But this case could hardly be more different. The men were there before hostilities took place and it's not even clear whether they actually fought any British forces anyway. But more importantly the UK was never in danger or compromised by the Taliban, and the act of war UK forces got themselves invoved in was far away from UK soil and to be frank, without much legal or moral justification.
I'm not defending the Taliban- it was a brutal and hideous regime. All I'm saying is that I rather doubt those men have broken any UK laws, let alone being guilty of high treason.