https://freerepublic.com/tag/alqaedainspain/ en-us Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:11:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152306/posts INVESTIGATORS OF THE 3/11 TERRORIST ATTACK ON Spain have found that the leader of the radical Islamic cell was a drug dealer who traded a load of hashish for the explosives that killed 191 people. Spanish authorities are finding that the al-Qaeda-related terrorists are also ­tangled up in organized crime, the underworld of robbery, counterfeiting, fraud, drug dealing, and murder. How can that be? A Muslim who steals is to have his hand cut off. Islam forbids the use of drugs. How can there be an alliance between fundamentalist Islam and organized crime? The answer, reports Sebastian Rotella of the... World https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152306/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:11:38 GMT