Posted on 08/14/2007 8:37:56 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
A former director of the Drug Enforcement Administration warned federal officials shortly after the September 11 attacks that violent drug cartels from Mexico were teaming with Muslim gangs to fund terrorist organizations overseas.
Asa Hutchinson, who also has been a Homeland Security undersecretary, said that in 2001, DEA agents uncovered the link between the drug cartels and terrorist groups but too few government officials listened.
"I think it's important to recognize that the link between terrorism and drug trafficking exists," said Mr. Hutchinson in a phone interview from Arkansas. "While we are fighting terrorists, we should not neglect our fight against drug traffickers. We shouldn't neglect it, because the link is there."
Last week, The Washington Times disclosed a confidential DEA report substantiating the link between Islamist sleeper cells in the U.S. and Mexican drug cartels. The report, which included several documented U.S. investigations into the terrorist/cartel connection, stated that Middle Eastern operatives funded terrorist groups with drug money linked to Mexican cartels.
Furthermore, the 2005 document suggests that some Islamist terrorists are disguising themselves as Hispanics.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Who need border control?
No one is serious about the WOT, no matter what they say, if they do not have as a top priority the complete control of our borders.
“Islamic Terrorists and Mexican Drug Cartels...”
Duuuh, I once heard a DHS official going on and on about “Radical Muslims won’t do business with non Muslims” what a moron, there is cash and smugglign pipelines involved, and it’s Islamacist dogma that non muslims can be dealt with as long as it advances the cause of spreading Islam thorugh a peace treaty.
“Islamic Terrorists and Mexican Drug Cartels...”
Duuuh, I once heard a DHS official going on and on about “Radical Muslims won’t do business with non Muslims” what a moron, there is cash and smugglign pipelines involved, and it’s Islamacist dogma that non muslims can be dealt with as long as it advances the cause of spreading Islam thorugh a peace treaty.
This is DAMNED scary.
"Wherever you look globally, you see extremist groups benefiting from drug trafficking," he said. "You see the Taliban benefiting from opium. We see money coming from drug trafficking in the United States making its way back to terrorist groups overseas."
Here is a blatant lie coming from our government...The Taliban had virtually eliminated poppy growing in Afghanistan while they ruled.
Despite its own figures showing the Taleban had cut Afghanistan's heroin production by about 95%, the report claimed that heroin had "financed the former Taleban regime". The UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) report, released on 26 February, said that Afghanistan produced 3,400 tonnes last year, up from 185 tonnes in 2001.
While the US report praised US-backed Afghan president Hamid Karzai for the measures he has introduced to cut heroin production, the UN report said his two executive orders had no practical impact.
HEROIN production in Afghanistan has soared by up to 1400 per cent since the war on terror and the fall of the Taliban, a drugs conference will hear today.
The United Nations Drug Control Programme estimates the "total likely yield" of this year’s opium poppy crop will be between 1900 and 2700 metric tons, compared with 185 tons last year.
Afghanistan’s vast opium poppy harvest is said to account for 90 per cent of the highly-addictive drug sold on Britain’s streets.
The collapse of the Taliban triggered the massive rise because poppy growing was banned by the regime in July 2000, leading to a fall of 95 per cent in the size of last year’s crop.
Nobody fights a drug war as hard as rigid religious ideologues. I guess be-headings are a great deterrent to growing unapproved crops. Do these government mouthpieces really think our memories are that short. Osama and the Taliban are financed through Saudi Arabia with money we pay for oil....not drugs.
Still, the fact that South American drug cartels are teaming up with Islamic terrorists is something to be alarmed about.
Of course - and Bush just open the gates wide on our southern borders.
So the failed war on some drugs is funding terrorists as well as destroying the Constitution. Big surprise there.
Remember the grief the government got over the ads against drugs after 9-11 which suggested you were supporting terrorism by buying drugs?
Yeah, the ONDCP spent some 30 million of our tax dollars to make television ads that were ridiculed...People seemed to view them as government propaganda. A drug policy built on the lies that the U.S. drug policy is built on tends to produce a cynical public. And that is a good thing.
This is what you are referring to:
http://www.narcoterror.org/ondcpads.htm
Tis true.
However the drug cartels want us to continue as that way they get money.
If only someone could figure out a way to eliminate the drug cartels’ profits, then there would be no terrorist link.
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