U.S. wants help to combat drug trade

U.S. wants help to combat drug trade

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A top U.S. narcotics official yesterday
sought greater cooperation in intelligence-sharing from Southeast
Asian nations to combat the burgeoning drug trade.

"The U.S. experience in dealing with drug traffickers from
Latin America showed that information exchange was helpful in
checking drug trafficking," Lee Brown, chief adviser on narcotics
matters to President Bill Clinton said.

Brown, who is also known as the "Drug Czar" in the United
States for his role in formulating policy, is also to visit
Thailand and is expected in Bangkok on Saturday, a U.S. official
in the Thai capital said.

His four-day fact-finding mission to Bangkok and the northern
Thai province of Chiang Mai comes shortly after reports linked as
many as 17 Thai politicians to drug trafficking.