Smuggling

US smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels: The real Benghazi story

May 15, 2013

Source: Asia Tribune There is a ‘side story’ going on in the American media – both the electronic and print about the Islamist jihadists lethal attack on the American ‘post’ in Benghazi, Libya last September 11 which killed American ambassador Christopher Steven and three others; The emphasis and the debate is on why the event [...]

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Narco State: Karzai’s Office Gets Bags Full Of C.I.A. Cash

April 28, 2013

Editor’s Note: Afghanistan: C.I.A., U.S. Special Operation Forces, Bags of Dollar Bills and Militia Proxy Forces Source: NYT For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central [...]

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Filmmaker claims CIA kept innocent man jailed to cover up drug trafficking

April 22, 2013

Source: Wired UK This is a story about an extreme miscarriage of justice. It involves the CIA, the US Army and a shitload of cocaine.” “If you want to, you can question anything to death,” says director Eric Stacey, his melodic Californian drawl coming slow and steady down the line. “But my point of view [...]

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Opium Production in Afghanistan Increases

April 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: Funding clandestine warfare in Syria ? Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fighting In Syria Funded by Afghanistan Drug Trafficking Source: Stripes Opium cultivation is expected to increase across Afghanistan, and in several areas where the crop had previously been eliminated production has resumed, according to a U.N. report released Monday. Despite years of efforts by [...]

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Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fighting In Syria Funded by Afghanistan Drug Trafficking

April 11, 2013

Source: RTT The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov. “Transnational organized crime groups can ensure an inflow of a huge number of criminals and mercenaries [...]

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‘Golden Triangle’ drug trade reaching highest levels in years

March 25, 2013

Editor’s Note: Strategic hydrocarbon security and commerce, strategic chokepoints, control of sea lines of communication/trade from East Africa to East China Sea are part of an open United States military strategy to implement a containment policy to reduce China’s spread of influence in the region. And another major commodity in the region of interest to [...]

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Narcotic Superhighways: The Top 5 Routes for Drug Trafficking

February 26, 2013

Source: OCCRP 1. “The Southern Route”: Afghanistan -> Pakistan -> SE Asia (Heroin, 150 metric tons) Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of the world’s opium, and thus, 80 percent of its heroin. Almost half the opium cultivated in Afghanistan is trafficked through Pakistan, but Pakistan itself has few heroin users. The country tends to stick to [...]

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America’s Drug War In Latin America Expanding

February 3, 2013

Editors Notes: War on drugs is a failed policy of the United States. Drug war policies/propaganda are extremely useful tools to sway public opinion allowing the Pentagon to militarize Latin America. Disagree or agree. Not only is this a pivot to control the supply and demand of narcotics, it is also a pivot the prevent [...]

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Afghan Airline Ferried Opium

January 25, 2013

Editors Notes: Another day in Nacro-State politics- take out the competition. Related Article: Afghan Air Force Probed in Drug Running Source: WSJ The U.S. military has blacklisted Afghanistan’s largest private airline, alleging it is smuggling “bulk” quantities of opium on civilian flights to Tajikistan, a corridor through which the drugs reach the rest of the [...]

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New US special operations headquarters to help Mexican forces to fight drug gangs

January 17, 2013

Source: Washington Post/AP The Pentagon is stepping up aid for Mexico’s bloody drug war with a new U.S.-based special operations headquarters to teach Mexican security forces how to hunt drug cartels the same way special operations teams hunt al-Qaida, according to documents and interviews with multiple U.S. officials. Such assistance could help newly elected Mexican [...]

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Large Shipments of Gold and Cash Leaving Afghanistan

December 15, 2012

Editors Notes: Currently Afghanistan is a narco state, a cozy relationship between private wealth and a corrupt public authority . Related Articles to purge Afghanistan resources :UN chief says discovery of vast mineral deposits in Afghanistan should be managed properly, Beginning of a new ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan, Afghan Air Force Probed in Drug [...]

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US plots to arm Syrian rebels with Muammar Gaddafi leftovers

December 9, 2012

Source: Australian/AP THE US is launching a covert operation to send weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time as it ramps up military efforts to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles will be sent through friendly Middle Eastern countries already supplying the rebels, according to well-placed diplomatic sources. The US [...]

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Swiss Hand Grenades Sent To UAE Ended Up In Syria

September 21, 2012

Source: AP An investigation has concluded that Swiss hand grenades exported to the United Arab Emirates several years ago found their way to Syria after being given to Jordan, the Swiss government said Friday. Switzerland set up a joint commission in July with the UAE to investigate whether grenades exported to the Gulf nation were [...]

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DEA Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams Told To Back Off From The Brother Of Afghan President Hamid Karzai

September 18, 2012

Source: BI Ahmed Wali Karzai was an influential power broker in Afghanistan before he was assassinated in July 2011. In June 6, 2007 email, titled “RE: Humint – Afghanistan – Karzai (Strictly Protect – Confidential,” Stratfor vice president of intelligence Fred Burton wrote: The brother of President Karzai of Afghanistan is under investigation by DEA as a major narcotics [...]

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Pentagon’s distribution of weapons for Iraq’s security forces smuggled to Syrian Rebels

August 28, 2012

Editors Notes: Here’s a visual reference to support the report- Syrian Rebel in Homs aiming M16A2 – Image Credit: AP: 01/31/2012 [...] In addition to such projects, the rebels have acquired many arms and weapons components from smugglers. These include blasting caps for bombs and telephone components used to manufacture remote-control detonators. And the rebels [...]

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Operation Anvil: DEA drug strategy to control the Honduran drug trade

June 25, 2012

Source: AP A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who killed a suspected drug trafficker during a raid in a remote region of Honduras was part of an aggressive new enforcement strategy that has sharply increased the interception of illegal drug flights. The mission, called Operation Anvil, is run with six U.S. State Department helicopters, [...]

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Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling

May 21, 2012

Source: Eurasianet: Inside the Cocoon A new report by the United Nations drug agency sheds light on the nuts and bolts of narcotics transit from Afghanistan through Central Asia, highlighting the former Soviet republics’ lackluster efforts at interdiction. The 106-page report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), released this month, describes how [...]

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Golden Crescent Opium and Western Role

May 14, 2012

According to recent statistics, Afghanistan provides almost 90% of the world opium, it is presumed as a center of opium and poppy cultivation and the trade of these illicit drugs have become a global phenomenon now. The situation since the post 9/11 scenario continues to deteriorate and this illegal but extraordinary form of economy make [...]

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TSA screeners charged in LA drug trafficking probe

April 25, 2012

Source: BW Two former and two current Transportation Security Administration employees were accused of allowing large amounts of cocaine and other drugs to pass through X-ray machines at security checkpoints in exchange for cash, authorities said Wednesday. The indictment involving drug conspiracy and bribery charges outlined five incidents where the employees took payments of up [...]

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Russia bans transit of NATO heroin through its territory

April 13, 2012

Source: Voltaire Net At the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, President Dmitry Medvedev renewed the offer to make Russian rail lines available for the transportation of non-military material from Europe to Afghanistan and vice versa. On 5 April 2012, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, soon to become Russian Ambassador to NATO, said in [...]

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Dream team! NATO and the Shanghai Five propose a joint production and trafficking of Afghanistan Opium

April 5, 2012

If you can‘t beat them, join them. FYI: Afghan Air Force Probed in Drug Running Russia Thwarts U.S. Central Asian Counterdrug Program Russia Said To Block U.S. Drug Plan Amid Wariness Over Central Asian Influence Source: RT With the Alliance’s war on opium in Afghanistan suffering setbacks, the director of Russia’s Drug Control Service [...]

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Iraq says Kurdistan smuggling oil through Iran

April 2, 2012

Source: The Daily Star Iraq’s Kurdish region, which has halted crude exports in a row with Baghdad, owes the central government more than $5 billion and is smuggling the oil it produces through Iran, Iraqi officials said Monday. “Kurdistan does not have any refineries to refine oil, so the biggest part is being smuggled outside [...]

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Billions in cash leaving Afghanistan

March 27, 2012

In the busy street markets of Kabul, stacks of cash sit in piles as moneychangers shout the day’s exchange rate to shoppers bustling by. Currency is bought and sold in the open air. But all the money changing hands on the streets is barely a drop in the bucket compared to all the cash being [...]

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NATO’s Central Asian interests

March 10, 2012

FYI: The U.S. is not leaving Afghanistan. CIA-led Special Forces, Rangers and NGOs will be stationed in Afghanistan and all military activities will be off the books. You do not have to be a military strategist to figure out that U.S./NATO is establishing military bases and operations in Central Asia to halt the advance of [...]

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Forty years of a useless war on drugs

February 21, 2012

In maintaining our drug laws, the Government is in cahoots with the dealers. As Vidal put it forty years back: “Both the Bureau of Narcotics and the Mafia want strong laws against the sale and use of drugs because if drugs are sold at cost there would be no money in it for anyone. If [...]

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‘US marines, US Special Forces and CIA involved in Afghan drug trade’

February 19, 2012

If you have personally researched the U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan opium production and trafficking over the years, then you know the U.S. is involved in the Afghanistan drug trade. The established opium production and trade is worth billions. The hyped oil, natural gas and rare earth minerals in Afghanistan remain in the ground. FYI: [...]

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Russia Thwarts U.S. Central Asian Counterdrug Program

February 19, 2012

Russia has reportedly convinced its allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization not to participate in a new U.S. counterdrug program in Central Asia, apparently concerned that it would give the U.S. too much leverage over the regional governments. The program, called the Central Asia Counternarcotics Initiative, would promote regional cooperation in countering drug trafficking [...]

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Why military hawks are leading drug legalization debate in Latin America

February 15, 2012

The machine [ Governmement/Corporations/Banks/Pharma] will never allow this to happen. Illegal drug profits are extremely higher and a lot easier to control, produce and distribute than extraction and refining natural resources. Wage war to take control of established oil/gas fields. Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala want to decriminalize drugs, but with a military approach. This means [...]

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Former DEA chief says 3 other federal agencies knew about Operation Fast and Furious

February 13, 2012

While criticism surrounding Operation Fast and Furious has so far focused on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, three other federal agencies knew about the operation and some of their agents tried to stop it, according to the former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Tucson. Tony Coulson, the DEA’s agent in [...]

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