Special to World Tribune.com GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT Friday, July 26, 2002 Profits from drugs shipped by Afghanistan were used by Al Qaida in carrying out the September 11 attacks, according to a classified report by Israel's police intelligence service.
Furthermore, Israeli intelligence has determined that Afghan drug traffickers reduced the price of opium to very low levels after September 11, in the hope of flooding the world with inexpensive heroin, said the report, disclosed by the Tel Aviv Maariv newspaper.
The Israelis estimate that the Taliban and Al Qaida have 2,800 tons of opium that can produce 280 tons of heroin worth some $80 billion in Europe. The stockpile could supply the continent for three years.
"This is how Muhammad Atta, who led the attack on the WTC, funded the activity," the report stated.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For Bin Laden's organization, flooding the West with drugs is part of the Jihad that it can conduct through its financial arm, which operates without incriminating documentation." Radical Islamic terrorists linked to Al Qaida and the Taliban are using "terror through an invasion of drugs" as a weapon against the West, the report stated.
The sheer scale of the drug trade in South Asia also makes it an economic weapons against the West. "The drugs and the scope of production in Afghanistan have the potential to impact the economies of countries since the amounts involved are huge," the report said, noting that "even after the Taliban regime was uprooted and another government was established, the assessment is that opium will continue to be grown, and even in greater quantities, because of the economic crisis the country is undergoing."
"There is a clear-cut connection between terror and crime, and the drug phenomenon has repercussions that go beyond crime and serious harm to public well-being," the report said. "The attack on the World Trade Center [WTC] underlines more than anything else how the drug problem constitutes a strategic threat on an international level, calling for world cooperation at the highest echelons in imposing the law."
The report noted that the U.S. military operations in the country may help to disrupt the illegal heroin trafficking from Afghanistan
SoCal drug probe leads to Israeli nationals and $8 million worth of Ecstasy
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - Fifteen people were arrested and more than $8 million worth of the party drug Ecstasy seized as part of a probe into a Southern California-based drug ring allegedly run by Israeli nationals.
The probe, which was conducted by investigators from the Torrance and Glendale police departments and the U.S. Customs Service, also lead to the seizure of 17 pounds of marijuana and $44,000 in cash, said Officer David Crespin of the Torrance Police Department.
The drug ring ``is responsible for 90 percent of the Ecstasy coming into the City of Torrance and other local cities,'' Crespin said.
Strange as it may be, it appears in this case the terrorists didn't just get funded by those who use heroin, but they were also funded by those that pay taxes!
Hmmmm, as long as it is illegal and must be grown in foreign countries; foreign countries will make the money.
Vote for the drug war, fund Al Quaeda; keep the profits in Afghanistan.