Tag: Narco-terrorism
Posted on Sun Jan 17, 2010 at 09:45:08 PM EST
Tags: narco-terrorism (all tags)
Say hello to the new incancation of the narco-terror war, which I've been predicting for many years, ever since the aborted attempt to introduce the Victory Act.
The United States attorney in Manhattan is merging the two units in his office that prosecute terrorism and international narcotics cases, saying that he wants to focus more on extremist Islamic groups whose members he believes are increasingly turning to the drug trade to finance their activities.
The new unit, he said, would be better able to bring drug charges to bear against some terrorists, as well as use a new law that gives federal drug agents the authority to pursue narcotics and terrorism crimes committed anywhere in the world if they can establish a link between a drug offense and a terrorist act or group.
This seems like a step down the slippery slope. [More...]
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Posted on Fri Dec 18, 2009 at 07:01:50 PM EST
Tags: narco-terrorism, Africa (all tags)
So, the DEA and its paid informants go to Africa for a sting. (AP here, NY Times here, U.S. Attorney press release here.)
The DEA informants pretend to be from FARC, willing to ship cocaine from South America to Africa where three Africans with claimed al- Qaida ties promise to transport it across the African desert into Spain.
Here's the Complaint (pdf). It doesn't sound like they got any cocaine or there ever was any cocaine, and the deal almost fell apart a few days before the bust.
It wasn't really FARC, just paid DEA informants pretending to be FARC. There never was any drugs, the pretend drugs weren't headed to the U.S. but Europe, yet the three would-be purchasers/transporters are arrested in Ghana and flown to New York for prosecution on terror and narco-terror charges here. [More...]
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Posted on Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 04:41:41 PM EST
Tags: Afghanistan, War on Drugs, Narco-terrorism (all tags)
First Mexico, now Afghanistan. The Wall St. Journal has as breaking news at the top of its site right now:
The Obama administration will unveil a new Afghanistan strategy Friday that calls for devoting significant new resources to counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan and economic development in Pakistan.
Today, Obama's choice of Ambassador to Afghanistan, Lt Gen Karl Eikenberry, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing: [More...]
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Posted on Sun Feb 08, 2009 at 02:25:00 PM EST
Tags: narco-terrorism (all tags)
Bump and Update: The WSJ confirms: The U.S. will fight the war on drugs in Afghanistan and enlist Iran in our effort.
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Coincidence? Vice-President Joe Biden, architect of innumerable oppressive U.S. crime bills, visits Afghanistan and the Nato Commander announces drug raids in Afghanistan are imminent.
NATO has been wanting to do this since last fall but didn't have the manpower. That problem seems solved. [More...]
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