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David Guttenfelder
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"AFGHANISTAN OPIUM WARS"

A mother and her children weep as Afghan policemen flatten her poppy field in the mountains of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province during a raid in northeastern Afghanistan. According to the woman, her husband was killed by insurgents, and poppies are her only income.