The British were only the puppet, but the real person who started the Opium War is by David Sassoon.

Afghanistan and the Opium Trade - A Case Study in Ritual Destruction

If you even mention the word Helmand to experienced Danish soldiers, they get a worried look on their faces. (Helmand er soldaternes mareridt, DR Nyheder/Udland, September 27, 2007, http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2007/09/27/062206.htm)

Last fall, the Danish soldiers there came under such heavy fire that they had to leave the village Musa Qala. The defense minister, Søren Gade, thought it was the heaviest fighting since 1864. Supposedly, 10000 experienced Taliban soldiers are all ready to go. (id.) Note that in the war of 1864, there were at least 1570 Danish deaths. (Second Schleswig War, Wikipedia)

Such hard fighting! But strangely no casualties as of February 2007. The military chief of operations oberst Henrik Sommer said this was due to "chance" and "good luck". (Sofie Rønde Mathiesen, Afghanistan-soldater var heldige, DR PR Bornholm, February 23, 2007) Or maybe just plain old underreporting.

Or maybe the fighting is not so hard at all. According to major Peter Els, if the Danish soldiers are fired upon, they lay low and wait for aerial bombs
to destroy houses that may have been the source of enemy fire. Els thought maybe innocent civilians were being killed, but the soldiers never could be sure because the houses were so thoroughly destroyed. (Soldater: Vores tunge skyts dræber uskyldige afghanere, DR Nyheder / Indland, August 30, 2007)
If its this kind of "hard fighting", the civilians are ritually murdered. The enemy soldiers don't get bombed because they're too hard to find. And the Danish casualties stay low. Reminds one of the ritual slaughter operations in Hamburg and Porsgrunn.

In May of 2007, there was a first. Steen Rønn Sørensens was wounded in an open firefight in Afghanistan, and died. This was the first time this had happened in recent history. (Dansk Afghanistan-soldat død, DR Nyheder / Udland, May 3, 2007)

The rest of the time, the "hard fighting" had involved waiting for aerial bombardment to kill all the Afghans in sight. Back in June of 2007, this was confirmed. In the eastern part of the country, seven children was killed when the "coalition" dropped aerial bombs on a mosque. The mosque was "thought" to be an enemy site. The coalition put out word that they would stop killing civilians, but nothing has coming of that high resolve. (Kirsten Larsen, Drab på civile i Afghanistan skal stoppes, DR Orientering, June 19, 2007)

So why do the Danish boys stay there? Because they enjoy killing Afghan civilians with aerial bombs?

In Irak, there's oil. That's a reason for the guardians of democracy to hang around.

In Afghanistan, there's opium. In fact, a record harvest this year. This year, the Afghan harvest made up 95% of the world total, up from 92% the year before. The opium business makes up one third of the Afghan economy money-wise. When the Taliban ran Afghanistan, they had just about eradicated the opium business. (Inger Marie Vennize, Opiumshøst i Afghanistan slår rekord, DR Nyheder/Udland, August 26, 2007)

A recent report shows that opium exports have risen 29 percent since 2006. That's more than 600 tons of opium and morphine being exported (NATO til kamp mod afghansk opium, DR, November 17, 2007, http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2007/11/17/233621.htm)

There's the monetary component in the opium business. Are there any ritual murders going on? Afghanistan finds itself in a downward spiral. In fact, things get worse every year. As usual, most of the casualties are civilians. (Antal dræbte stiger i Afghanistan, DR Nyheder/Udland, April 17, 2007)

So. Lots of killing going on. Lots of treasure being taken.

It sounds just like Shechem. Or Ammon. Maybe there are some Jews involved here?

When the 99 year British lease on Hong Kong's New Territories expired, the Crown of the City of London's Colony was ceded to China. Of hundreds of newspaper stories and TV reports that covered this event, not one revealed how England first gained control of Hong Kong! The truth lies buried in the family line of David Sassoon, "The Rothschilds of The Far East," and their monopoly over the opium trade. Britain won Hong Kong by launching the opium Wars to give the Sassoons exclusive rights to drug an entire nation!

David Sassoon was born in Baghdad, Iran in 1792, son of Saleh Sassoon, a
wealthy banker and the treasurer to Ahmet Pasha, governor of Baghdad (making him the "court Jew" -- a highly influential position). When Ahmet was overthrown for corruption in 1829, the Sassoons fled to Bombay, India, the strategic trade route to India and gateway to the Far East. Soon the British government granted Sassoon "monopoly rights" to the manufacture of cotton goods, silk and most importantly, Opium -- at that time the most addictive drug in the world! The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1905, states that Sassoon expanded his opium trade into China and Japan. He placed his eight sons in charge of the major opium exchanges in China. According to the 1944 Jewish Encyclopedia: "He employed only Jews in
his business, and wherever he sent them he built synagogues and schools for them. He imported whole families of fellow Jews . . . and put them to
work."

Sassoon's sons were busy pushing this mind-destroying drug in Canton, China. Between 1830 and 1831 they trafficked 18,956 chests of opium, earning millions of dollars. Part of the profits went to Queen Victoria and the British government. In the year 1836 the trade increased to over 30,000 chests and drug addiction became endemic in coastal cities.

In 1839, the Manchu Emperor ordered it stopped and named Commissioner of Canton, Lin Tse-hsu, to lead a campaign against opium. Lin seized 2,000 chests of Sassoon opium and threw it into the river. An outraged David Sassoon demanded that Great Britain retaliate. Thus, the
Opium Wars began with the British Army fighting as mercenaries of the Sassoons. They attacked cities and blockaded ports. The Chinese Army, decimated by 10 years of rampant opium addiction, proved no match for the British Army. The war ended in 1839 with the signing of "The Treaty of Nanking." This included provisions especially designed to guarantee the Sassoons the right to enslave an entire population with opium. The "peace treaty" included the following provisions:-

Full legalization of the opium trade in China,
Compensation from [for] the opium stockpiles confiscated by Lin of 2 million pounds,
Territorial sovereignty for the British Crown over two hundred offshore islands.
Sassoon's use the British Army to Drug an entire Nation

British Prime Minister Palmerston wrote Crown Commissiner Captain Charles Elliot that the treaty didn't go far enough. He said it should have been rejected out of hand because: "After all, our naval power is so strong that we can tell the Emperor what we mean to hold rather than what he would cede. We must demand the admission of opium into interior China as an article of lawful commerce and increase the indemnity payments and British access to several additional Chinese ports." Thus, China not only had to reimburse Sassoon the value of his dumped opium but to pay England the sum of 21 million pounds for the cost of the war!

This gave the Sassoon's monopoly rights to distribute opium in port
cities. However, even did not satisfy him and Sassoon demanded the right to sell opium throughout the nation. The Manchus resisted and the British Army again attacked in the "Second Opium War fought 1858 - 1860. Palmerston declared that all of interior China must be open for uninterrupted opium traffic. The British suffered a defeat at the Taku Forts in June 1859, when sailors, ordered to seize the forts, were run aground in the mud-choked harbor and several hundred killed or captured. An enraged Palmerston said: "We shall teach such a lesson to these perfidious hordes that the name of Europe will hereeafter be a passport of fear."

In October, the British besieged Peking. When the city fell, British commander Lord Elgin, ordered the temples in the city sacked and burned to the ground as a show of comtempt. In the new "Peace Treaty" of Oct.25, 1860, the British were assigned rights to a vastly expanded opium trade covering seven-eights of China, which brought in over 20 million pounds in 1864 alone. In that year, the Sassoons imported 58,681 chests of opium and by 1880 it skyrocketed to 105,508 chests, making the Sassoons the richest Jews in the world. England was given the Hong Kong peninsula as a colony and large sections of Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai. The Sassoons were now licensing opium dens in each British occupied area with large fees being collected by their Jewish agents. Sassoon would not allow any other race to engage in "the Jews' business."

However, the British government would not allow any opium to be imported into Europe!

Sassoon's Monopoly wrecked England's Textile Industry in
Lancashire, and made the Roosevelt's Wealthy.

Sir Albert Sassoon, the eldest of David Sassoon's sons took over the
family empire, constructing huge textile mills in Bombay where he paid slave labor wages. This expansion continued after World War One, putting England's mills in Lancashire out of business. Thousands lost their jobs. This did not deter Queen Victoria from knighting Albert Sassoon in 1872.
Solomon Sassoon moved to Hong Kong and ran the family business there until his death in 1894. Later, the entire family moved to England because with modern communications they could operate their financial empire from their luxurious estates in London and socialize with royalty. Edward Albert. Sassoon married Aline Caroline de Rothschild in 1887, linking their fortunes. The Queen also knighted Edward. All of David Sassoon's fourteen grandsons were made officers during World War One, thus most were able to avoid combat.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's fortune was inherited from his maternal
grandfather Warren Delano. In 1830 he was a senior partner of Russell &
Company whose merchant fleet carried Sassoon's opium to China and returned with tea. Warren Delano moved to Newburgh, N.Y. In 1851 his daughter Sara married well-born neighbor, James Roosevelt - the father of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Although he knew the origin of the family fortune, he refused to discuss it. The Sassoon opium trade brought death and destruction to millions and still plagues Asia to this day. Their company was totally operated by Jews ONLY! The corrupt Khazar British monarchy honored them and although history describes them as the "great developers" of India, the source of their vast wealth is never mentioned! (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/sassoon.htm)

So the Jews were running the business since its early days.

There are a lot of authorities which describe current Jewish involvement in the heroin trade, but the following article says it all:

HEROIN SCANDAL ROCKS LONDON'S DEVOUT JEWISH COMMUNITY
The Orthodox Jewish community has been shocked by a series of arrests of its members for alleged heroin smuggling. Police and Customs inquiries are centering on a drugs link between Israel, Antwerp and London.

Evidence of the new drugs link follows:

Two Jewish men are to appear British courts on heroin smuggling
charges.

The professional execution on an Antwerp street last week, of a Jewish jeweller and leading figure in the Russian Mafia.

A Talmudic scholar accused in Tel Aviv this month of laundering drugs money through his bank account.

The north London Orthodox community is remaining tight-lipped about the arrests although it is thought to be severely embarrassed.

Several people in the community, who did not want to be named, said that the arrests were causing anger and deep concern.

The involvement of Orthodox Jews in hard drugs has echoes of the recent case in New York State where the puritanical Amish sect was torn by the arrest of several younger members for drug dealing.

The Orthodox and ultra-orthodox communities of Stamford Hill and Golders Green in north London have a reputation for being largely crime-free. While some members of the Orthodox community have been jailed in the past for large-scale VAT frauds and other white collar crime,
it has never been associated with drugs [publically] or violent crime. The fact the arrests involve allegations of heroin has proved even more shocking.

Police in several European countries began to suspect that the diamond area of Antwerp was becoming an international centre for drug smuggling two years ago when an Orthodox Jewish man from Antwerp was arrested at Ramsgate.

Dror Hazenfratz, then 34, from Antwerp, was jailed for 11 years for trying to smuggle heroin. He was arrested by British Customs officers while travelling with his wife and child in the family Peugeot 405. Underneath the child seat in the back Customs officers found 15 kilos of heroin worth UKP750,000.

Hazenfratz, who was born in Haifa and holds an Israeli passport as well as a Belgian identity card, appeared in Canterbury court wearing traditional dress and carrying the Talmud. He had made other one-day trips to England.

Hazenfratz said he had been told to meet a Georgian Orthodox Jew at a
north London hotel. The ultimate destination of the drugs was reputedly David Santini, a Glaswegian who, at the time, was Scotland's leading heroin dealer.

In an unrelated raid, Santini was arrested while repacking a UKP1.1m
consignment of heroin. He was jailed for 13 years. A senior officer in the case said: "He had massive connections with Britain's underworld and leads to European drug cartels."

Following the arrest of Hazenfratz drugs officers began to suspect a new drugs route. The last stopping point for most drugs coming into Britain is the Netherlands, but European police forces are making it more difficult to use that country as a transshipment point.

The collapse of Communism has also opened up new smuggling routes
through Eastern Europe into London and Antwerp is ideally suited as a drugs centre.

At the end of June British Customs arrested a 19-year-old man from Antwerp in Dover with 10 kilos of heroin allegedly concealed in his hire
car. He is awaiting trial. Shortly before an older man had been arrested at
Coquelles at the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel.

British Customs allegedly found quantities of heroin and cocaine. The man was an American Orthodox Jew living in Stamford Hill.

British drugs officers suspect they are seeing the beginning of a new drug operation involving Antwerp's Orthodox Jews and the Russian Mafia. The Orthodox community has been a major player in the diamond and precious metal market. Antwerp has the largest diamond centre in the world. Other centres of the diamond business are Tel Aviv and Hatton Garden, London.

Antwerp's Orthodox community is close knitted but cosmopolitan with close links with similar communities in Israel, London, New York and Eastern Europe. It is an Askenazi community which originated mainly
from East Europe. However, over the past two years the diamond business has taken a downturn for the small trader and the trade has moved mainly into the hands of big corporations such as DeBeers. In addition, last year, police made a series of raids of diamond businesses suspected of tax evasion and money laundering.

According to one Customs source, smuggling diamonds from
Antwerp to London's Hatton Garden has been on for many years. This expertise in smuggling has now been turned to a more sinister trade. The Russian Mafia has made Antwerp a centre of its operations and has been able to use the expertise of a community that has fallen on hard times.

Last week, evidence of the violence associated with drug crime surfaced again in Antwerp. A Jewish trader in precious metals in the city, Rachmeil "Mike" Brandwain, also reputed to be a leading figure in the Russian Mafia, was shot dead. Underworld gossip has it that he had informed on another leading figure in the Russian Mafia who had been arrested in New York.

In the 1980s Brandwain had sold gold that was smuggled into Britain for a VAT fraud being run in Hatton Garden. A Customs operation codenamed "Operation Fiddler" arrested a number of men in London. Brantwain was also suspected to be a cocaine dealer.

Earlier this month in Tel Aviv, three British drugs officers were in court to see an Israeli man charged with laundering money from an international drugs ring.

According to local police, the British officers were from MI6 - the
remit of the overseas arm of British intelligence was extended to cover
international drug smuggling.

Israel Aron Albam, a 38-year-old Talmudic scholar, married with eight children, was released on a bail of 8m shekels (around UKP1.3m ). The Tel Aviv court was told that British authorities had been involved with the seizure of two boatloads of drugs, the first in 1992 with two tonnes of cocaine and one tonne of cocaine.

The shipments originated from Columbia and were heading for Holland. The second boat was seized in Portugal and a British citizen known only as "John" was arrested. He claimed that Albam had given him UKP48,000 to pay for the yacht. The court was told that a number of men are held by the British authorities in connection with the smuggling ring.

Albam is an Askenazi of the large Vishmitz sect. Police inquiries revealed that Albam was on a Israeli government grant for poor scholars to study the Talmud at the Yeshiva ( theology college ). He had travelled to New York and London, apparently collecting money for charity. However, Israeli police found 400m shekels ( UKP66m ) in his bank account. The account was in the Israeli religious bank which is tax exempt.

(Paul Lashmar, HEROIN SCANDAL ROCKS LONDON'S DEVOUT JEWISH COMMUNITY, The Independent, July 25, 1998).

All of the pieces of the puzzle are there. First we have the devout Orthodox Jews. Then there's the religious bank in Israel. Tax exempt, naturally. Plenty of money flowing around. And lots of opium/heroin. Even a poor talmudic scholar who had 66 million pounds in his religious bank account.

And the ritual slaughter?

The Christian soldiers from Europe get killed in their protection work for the drug business. The Taliban (pictured at right) government shut down the opium trade, but thanks to the effective protection of the Christian soldiers, there was a record harvest in 2007. Plenty of Afghan Islamics get killed. And then think of all those heroin addicts. Paying lots of money to destroy their brains.

Its a typical scenario. It reminds one so much of Shechem and Ammon.

Related link: http://globheu.blogspot.com/2006/09/ch-19-jrm-in-afghanistan.html