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The “precursor” chemicals required for this process, such as acetic anhydride, are often diverted illegally from factories in Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan. In the ramshackle new states which until recently formed the soft underbelly of the Soviet Union, drug lords can rely both on lax laws and on the corruptibility of police and customs officers, whose wages are a pittance compared with the sums at stake in the narcotics business. From these states, the lethal consignments—hidden in truckloads of raisins or walnuts, disguised as bags of flour, or else transported in rusting Soviet-era railway cars—take two different routes.

The first point is hard to deny. The bill has been whipped through the two chambers at a blistering pace, with some members biting their tongues for fear of appearing unpatriotic. The Republican leadership made the House vote on a 175-page bill that had been written only the night before and that few (if any) members had had time to read properly. Only one senator, Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, asked any really hard questions. On the other hand, the legislature has singularly refused to cave in to all the demands made by the Justice Department, which has had to give up several of its hobby-horses—most notably, the power to detain some suspects indefinitely (this was reduced to seven days).

In both cases, the chances of success may be slim. But Mr Powell is right to suppose that the war on terror has altered the odds a little—for instance, by putting India and Pakistan on the same side of a major conflict for the first time in living memory. And Mr Powell's eyes range beyond Palestine and Kashmir. He hopes that the anti-terror war can change America's relations with both Russia and China. Mr Putin seems to have decided that Russia's help in dealing with terrorism could be the start of closer ties with the West.

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