If heroin rules, kingpins walk free (Corruption, poor policing handicap nation)

Last year, Afghan farmers cultivated poppies on a record 477,000 acres, an area more than three times the size of Chicago and enough to supply 93 percent of the world's opium, which is used to make heroin.

"There is no doubt that we have smugglers in Afghanistan, but the big smugglers are international smugglers outside Afghanistan," Karzai told reporters. "We have put hundreds of people in prisons in Afghanistan for drug smuggling. We are doing our best."
If heroin rules, kingpins walk free -- chicagotribune.com