Afghanistan and The former Soviet Republics of Central Asia
The worst drought in Afghanistan history occurred in the three consecutive years prior to the onslaught of the US led invasion, from 1999 to 2001. The agricultural recovery of the 1990s, in the wake of the Soviet-Afghan war was brought to a standstill.
In the wake of the US led 2001 invasion, the United States supplied Afghanistan with genetically modified wheat and appropriate types of fertilizer to be used with the GM wheat, which was said to be high yield drought resistant. The donation of GM wheat, however, also led to destabilizing the small peasant economy because the GM wheat varieties could not reproduced locally. In 2002, famines which were barely reported by the media, swept the country.
Similar although less severe conditions prevailed in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.htmlRepeat:"The worst drought in Afghanistan history occurred in the three consecutive years prior to the onslaught of the US led invasion, from 1999 to 2001."
Opium production in Afghanistan went from an all time high in 1999 to record low in 2001 producing virtually none until we invaded.
But you want to know what gets me? Why didn't the pentagon geniuses use HAARP to find Bin Ladens cave before they did one of the more costly modern day bombing campaigns at a time when we were trying to get to the bottom of unaccounted trillions.
Bin Ladens Cave according to Rumsfeld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhGHxw0mSo