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[AnNahar] Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban...mindless ferocity in a turban...
have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of narcotics addiction, even if by force.
At nightfall, the battle-hardened fighters-turned-coppers scour the capital's drug-ravaged underworld. Below Kabul's bustling city bridges, amid piles of garbage and streams of filthy water, hundreds of homeless men addicted to heroin and methamphetamines are rounded up, beaten and forcibly taken to treatment centers. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named gained rare access to one such raid last week.