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In another case, some participants in a massive methamphetamine ring allegedly sent millions of dollars to Hezbollah.

"It's the first time we've seen drug proceeds going back [from this country] to a terrorist organization," said Asa Hutchinson, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The massive methamphetamine smuggling investigation, dubbed Operation Mountain Express, resulted in the January arrests of about 100 people in 10 cities. It also found evidence of close ties between Mexican drug trafficking organizations and Arab American organized-crime groups in New York, Michigan and Canada.

Arab gangs in Canada truck millions of tablets of pseudoephedrine -- an over-the-counter cold medicine ingredient that is legal in that country -- into the United States, where it is sold to Mexican gangs that use it to manufacture methamphetamine, officials said. Authorities have tracked $10 million in the gang's profits to the Middle East. The government has traced a portion of that money to accounts that are used by Hezbollah, officials said.

Also among the schemes that agents are scrutinizing is coupon fraud, which offers enormous profits in increments of 10 or 20 cents at a time.

Criminals hire underlings to scour trash bins and recycling centers for bundles of newspaper inserts containing retail coupons. The coupons are brought to neighborhood store owners who are part of the scheme. They redeem the coupons without selling products. In the end, the store owner and the coupon gang split the money.

"It's the first time we've seen drug proceeds going back [from this country] to a terrorist organization," said Asa Hutchinson, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

This statement confirms the fact that the (government, was it the DEA?) was pulling at straws when they aired those Super Bowl anti-drug commercials. On top of that, buying cigarettes, alcohol, ice cream, gasoline, phone cards, and almost anything at a convenience store is helping the terrorists' financing. Always blame the druggies when those facts are politically uncomfortable. I bought take-out from a place that was closed by the FBI. Is my food comsumption going to be publically rebuked during the World Series?

Living in NJ, the amount of scams that have been rumoured to be connected to all kinds of Muslims with evil intentions against the people in this country have been numerous. Dominoes and other franchise eateries, cig smuggling, fake phone cards, car insurance scams, drug distribution, gas station fronts, and rumors about almost every cash business you can thing of, including one rumor I heard of with a group of ice cream trucks.

Honest, or so I believe, Muslim businessmen working in the communities where these fronts were located have seen their customers disappear, and have closed shop. One man near me had his establishment attacked. If this continues, the economic segregation seen throughout the UK will intensify here, stirring the pot for years to come.