In other news from Afghanistan, the U.N. released a report Monday showing opium production has reached record levels.

U.N. Drug Chief Antonio Maria Costa: “The opium situation in Afghanistan is disastrous. As recorded in our survey 2007, just released, the extent of the cultivation has increased by 17 percent to 193,000 hectares. There is no other country in the world which produces so much. I would say more than that. Afghanistan is producing more illicit drugs than all Andean countries combined—Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, of course.”