Posted on 01/19/2010 3:20:19 PM PST by mgist
AFP – A Yemeni soldier stands atop a hill overlooking the capital Sanna on January 13. A senior Yemeni official … .
In November, drug traffickers landed a Boeing 727 in the Malian desert in Gao state and offloaded between 10 and 12 million tons of cocaine. Then, rather than fly it back across the Atlantic to Latin America, they simply burnt it, treating it like a used Coke can. The terrain of northern Mali is stark desert, and a haven for Islamist insurgents with close ties to Al Qaeda. Initially, investigators thought the plane had crashed in the desert on take off.
But now, based on the fact that the plane was largely intact, many experts suspect that the drug cartels – perhaps in coordination with their Al Qaeda partners – burnt the plane deliberately.
According to UN reports, nearly 60 percent of the cocaine sold in Europe transits through weak West African states such as Mali, Niger, Mauritania, and Guinea Bissau – a flow of cash and contraband that undermines the credibility of each country’s ability to govern itself.
Islamist radicals and Latin American drug cartels may be working together, both to enrich themselves and to weaken the law enforcement capability of those West African states.
When it comes to traffickers use of planes between West Africa and Latin America, US military experts say there is a clear potential threat to American security. “We know what those planes are carrying across the Atlantic to Africa. But what goes back [on those planes] to [Latin] American shores?” says one US military official. “You know what the condition of the [US] southern borders are. You see the beginning of a process of thought.”
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Soros is the missing link.
That's one heavy load!!!!
Right now, Latin drug traffickers have the run of the border. The failed WO(S)D can’t stop them and we refuse to stop the illegals.
Why would they screw it up by supporting terrorists, when an incident might militarize the border?
It ALMOST filters to and through Venezuela. What doesn’t go through Venezuela is shipped out of through Cuba, Bolivia!
It is just a matter of time before the border becomes a battle zone. (With troops,tanks and drones)
ough oh...NBC is now running the line...Haiti worse than 9-11 in American deaths.
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