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COMMENTS: Buried Treasure, After a Mark-up
NBC's claimed an Exclusive for Jim Maceda's videotape from the valleys of eastern Afghanistan. He joined a ten-hour helicopter-borne raid along with "a new and unique mix" of narcs, as he put it: Afghan paramilitaries, veteran Colombia-based DEA agents, soldiers from NATO and commandos from the United States. We followed the raid through a couple of villages until the team uncovered "a motherlode, bag after bag of dry morphine base" buried in a wheat field. A single bag sells for only $500 in Afghanistan but Maceda calculated that it contains the raw material to manufacture heroin that can be marked up to $60,000 in an American city. The team claimed to have unearthed three tons of the base.
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