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Everyone in this part of Helmand is waiting for the arrival of “The Businessman” – a mysterious individual who turns up at about this time each year to buy poppy resin from the acres of crops in the green belt along the Helmand river.
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In this image made available by the Ministry of Defence in London, Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008, British troops attend a sunset vigil at their base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008, dedicated to Trooper James Munday of 1 Troop, D...
