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> I've been doing searches about Powell giving $43
> million to the Taliban regime. The only thing I found
> is the opposite of the claim in the LA Times article.
> This year 2000 report says on the State Dept's website
> claims an increase in poppy seed cultivation. Can
> anyone independantly confirm Mr. Scheer's claims?
> I've been getting emails questioning it's validity....
If you use anything but Google to search with, you're wasting your time ;-), IMHO.
A search for "bush afghanistan donate million powell" (without the quotation marks" yields a fair number of results. I don't really have the bandwidth at the moment to go to any of them specifically, but something there must help.
HTH
Cheers
Zak