From the AP: U.S. and Russian drug control agencies have raided heroin and opium labs in Afghanistan in an unprecedented collaborative bust, destroying $250 million worth of drugs, officials said Friday.

Afghan forces also were involved in the raid on four laboratories near the Pakistan border, a U.S. Embassy spokesperson said on customary condition of anonymity. …

Russian anti-narcotics chief Viktor Ivanov said his agency cooperated closely with the U.S. counterparts to organize the bust, which ended Thursday and destroyed 932 kilograms (2,050 pounds) of heroin and 156 kilograms (340 pounds) of opium worth an estimated $250 million.

Ivanov said in televised comments that 70 men, including U.S. and Afghan security personnel and four Russian drug agents, took part in the raid backed by nine U.S. helicopters in Nangarhar province. …

He said Russia may increase the number of its drug-agents in Afghanistan in the future. …

Ivanov told The Associated Press in an interview last weekend that months ago he provided U.S. officials in Kabul with the coordinates of 175 laboratories where heroin is processed but the U.S. failed to act.  (photo: Getty)

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