Narco Terrorism

Defeating Narco-Terrorism
(2009-03-17) Rachel Ehrenfeld Huffington Post
Narco-terrorists and the international criminal organizations that thrive on the illegal drug trade now threaten the national security of many nations. The nexus between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups does not end with illegal drug trafficking. Their partnerships are complex, linking illegal drugs, money, geography and politics. Yet, U.S. and international More >>

Stop The Afghan Drug Trade, Stop Terrorism
(2009-02-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Forbes.com
"The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan," said Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he took office in 2002. Judging by the current situation, Afghanistan is losing. To win, the link between narcotics and terrorism must be severed. That is the necessary condition for a successful strategy to undermine the growing influence of al-Qaida, the Taliban and radical Muslim groups More >>

Osama: The Heroin Pusher
(2005-01-03) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com
http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications73.htm Afghanistan no longer serves as al-Qaeda's home base. Yet, it remains the source of another great evil -- the biggest heroin supply in the world. Since its liberation, Afghanistan's heroin production has gone from 640 tons to 5,000, an increase of almost 800%. Afghanistan now supplies 87% of the world's heroin market, and at least 90% More >>

Afghanistan and Heroin
(2005-01-03) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld New York Sun
http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications72.htm The liberation of Afghanistan may have ended one evil, but unless it is stopped, it is creating a bigger evil - an 800% increase in heroin production, which not only funds the Islamist terrorists, but also kills and destroys the lives of hundred of thousands around the world. In 2005, America can help stop this scourge. Afghanistan no More >>

The War on (Narco) Terror (With Walton Cook)
(2004-05-20) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Walton Cook FrontPageMagazine.com
http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications53.htm The international drug trade puts hundreds of millions of dollars in the coffers of global terrorists, which threatens the global community. Each year the US and other members of the G-8 summit spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the production of Opium in Afghanistan, yet this years poppy harvest will set records in that More >>

A Statement Before the European Parliament ad hoc Working Group on Direct Financial Aid to the Pales
(2003-11-19) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org
http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications42.htm "War is a dream, peace is a nightmare." This statement was made by the chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Yasser Arafat, on June 6, 2001 in an interview with Radio Palestine. It vividly explains both the Intefada that followed, and the continuing bloodshed in the Middle East. It also illustrates Mr. Arafat's vision for the More >>

The Americas: Colombia Must End Flirtations With Drug Lord
(1992-08-14) Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal
Three years after a bomb destroyed a Colombian plane in flight -- killing all 110 passengers, including two U.S. citizens -- a U.S. attorney in New York has indicted Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and one of his chief assassins for the murders. Perhaps now authorities will find some way of bringing Escobar to trial. But justice has been slow in reaching the 42-year-old billionaire, who escaped More >>

The Americas: Castro Is Shocked! Shocked! to Find Drug-Dealing Comrades
(1989-06-23) Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal
While "perestroika" makes headway in the Soviet Union and other East Bloc countries, and while Communist China is cleaning house in Beijing, "spring cleaning" is taking place in Havana. "The true revolution cannot leave unpunished those who violate its principles" said Granma, the Cuban Communist Party's newspaper. The editorial was providing the "correct interpretation" of the extraordinary More >>

The Narcotic-Terrorism Connection
(1986-02-10) Rachel Ehrenfeld and Michael Kahan The Wall Street Journal
"A growing narcotics network is only a part of an increased trend of international lawlessness," said Secretary of State George Shultz in a 1984 address to the Miami Chamber of Commerce. The Reagan administration is increasingly emphasizing the link between drug traffickers, terrorists and organized crime, to a sometimes skeptical audience. But those links have been known for years. Scholars More >>


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