Central Asia: May 5, 2003

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Gun battles between Russian border guards and Afghan drug smugglers continue on the Tajik-Afghan border. Russian officers fear that some of these troops are being bribed by the drug gangs, as this is cheaper for them than losing millions of dollars of worth of drugs to the border troops.

 

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