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December 2011. Operation EAGLE was the first time the CNPA had effectively integrated
specialized and provincial units with the operations of other MoI police elements.
Meanwhile DEA, the CNPA National Interdiction Unit (NIU), and ISAF maintained high CN
operational tempos throughout the reporting period, conducting several major CN operations in
Helmand Province in October and November 2011; these operations resulted in the destruction
of several drug processing labs. The destruction of these labs has denied the insurgency millions
of dollars in potential revenue.
In October 2011, DEA, the Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU), the Provincial Reaction Company
Kandahar, and U.S. military forces conducted a joint CN operation in Kandahar City which
resulted in the seizure of 21,150 kilograms of pre-cursor chemicals. There was also an increase
in hashish seizures in Kandahar Province during the reporting period. On December 24, 2011,
DEA, the SIU, and the U.S. military executed two Afghan search warrants, which resulted in the
seizure of 10 metric tons of hashish. On January 23, 2012, an operation was conducted in which
16 metric tons of hashish and one hashish processing center was seized. On January 30, 2012,
another operation resulted in the seizure of 35.3 metric tons of hashish. These seizures resulted
in millions of dollars of potential revenue being denied to the insurgency.
In June 2011, the DEA, SIU, and the CNPA Technical Investigative Unit (TIU) began an
investigation of an international drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating in Helmand and
Herat Provinces. This DTO was responsible for the distribution of hundreds of kilograms of
heroin and opium, along with the importation of Acetic Anhydride from Iran. Through judicially
authorized intercepts, the DEA and SIU were able to identify the DTO leader and his associates.
On December 16, 2011, one of the sons of a DTO leader was arrested in the city of Herat by the
NIU and SIU with 23 kilograms of heroin. On December 29, 2011, DEA and the SIU learned
through judicial telephone intercepts that the DTO leader was in Kabul to meet with the MOI
Deputy Minister of Intelligence regarding the arrest of his son. SIU investigators were mobilized
to the MOI and arrested him without incident. On February 9, 2012, another son was arrested by
the CNPA in Heart Province on an outstanding arrest warrant. The arrest of these three
individuals has dismantled the DTO. On February 6, 2012, the DTO leader and his son who was
arrested on December 16, 2011 were each sentenced by Afghan authorities to 20 years of
imprisonment for drug trafficking violations.
On February 18, 2012, DEA and the NIU orchestrated the arrest of an individual at the Lashkar
Gah airport in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, upon his return from India. This individual had
been sought by the Counter Narcotics Justice Center since September 17, 2011, after a CN
operation conducted by the NIU, the DEA Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team and ISAF
Special Operation Forces in Margha Village in Helmand revealed an exceptionally large drug lab
stocked with laboratory equipment and precursor chemicals. Approximately 21.5 metric tons of
drugs and precursor chemicals were seized.
Other notable CN operations during the reporting period include the continued progress of the
DEA-mentored Judicial Wire Intercept Program (JWIP). The JWIP provides Afghan law
enforcement with lawful intercepts that can be used in an Afghan court of law. Since its
inception in 2008, the JWIP has intercepted millions of calls. Since the beginning of FY12,
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