----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com>
>There are strong reasons to suspect that the
> "Dawn" (November 10) interview of Hamid Mir with bin Laden, in which
> the latter claimed to be in possession of nuclear and chemical
> weapons, was organised by this brains-trust inside Pakistani
territory
> and not at an undisclosed destination five hours drive from Kabul as
> claimed by Hamid Mir.
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< http://www.tourism.gov.pk/darra.html >
DARRA (KOHAT PASS )
Darra Adam Khel is 42 kms (26 miles) south of Peshawar and leads on to Kohat. Darra is the biggest centre of indigenous arms manufacture. It has been supplying arms to whole tribal belt for the last 100 years. In Darra village almost every house is a gun factory, manufacturing astonishing copies of all imported guns and pistols with the crudest of tools. Buses and taxis ply to Darra. A visit to Darra is subject to permission by the Home Secretary, Government of N.W.F.P.
(Due to uncertain situation in Afghanistan, all tribal areas including Darra Gun Factories are closed to foreign visitors. Home Secretary, NWFP is the authority to grant permissions)
[ Also done in Darra] < http://tsunami.mg-soft.com/makehash.html >
Which led to recipes from Afghanistan.... :-)
< http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/hash.html >
Get a lot of female plants that have grown all the way and may even contain seeds. Make sure they are absolutely dry by hanging them in a shed for some weeks. Now take off all the leaves that are bigger than 1/2 inch. You end up with just a stem with some buds sitting on it.
Now strip off the buds into a container. (BTW, Hash (moroccan style) consists exclusively of the pressed grains of resin that are sitting on top of tiny resin glands that are most abundant on the leaves surrounding the seeds, or flowers. when the plant is dry this resin hardens to form a very small particle, called "pollen" which is not actual pollen however.)
So now you've got all the clean buds start crushing them over a kitchen sieve (mesh size about 0.5 mm). The seeds and stems will stay on top of the sieve. "Grind" the leaves gently through the sieve. You end up with a sort of powdered leaves. Be sure that the thin skins that surround the seeds are included in this result, because they contain most of the resin glands.
You may repeat this process using a sieve with an even smaller mesh size. (0.25 mm). Then take a cloth with the appropriate "mesh size" and rub the powder you have already got over this cloth. In the ideal case, only the finest particles pass through the cloth and will ill consist only of tiny grains of resin. Now take this powder and wrap it into a sheet of kitchen plastic foil. Now press this "package" between a few logs of wood. The result is a sheet of hashisch. If the sheet falls apart again you've got too much leafy stuff in between the resin. Try a cloth with a smaller mesh size the next time. This procedure is only advised when you have so much weed to spare that you don't possibly smoke it all in a year.