Trafficking

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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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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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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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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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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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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United Nation and DynCorp sex slavery revealed in Whistleblower

January 14, 2012

>> Source: Guardian Starring Rachel Weisz, The Whistleblower, released tomorrow on DVD, is the most searing drama-documentary of recent years and has won many prizes. But more important than the accolades is that everything in the film is true. The film deals with enslavement and rape in Bosnia, not during wartime 20 years ago but [...]

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Rio drug kingpin claims half his millions went on police bribes

November 12, 2011

The kingpin who was Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted drug dealer before his arrest this week has claimed that half his earnings went on paying bribes to police officers.

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Que Malo, Narcos! Mexico Attacks Cartels With Comics

September 9, 2011

The besieged Mexican government has a new tool in the info war against drug cartels: animated, online propaganda comics set to electronic beats. The 10-episode comic series, posted over the summer in two- to three-minute episodes to the blog of President Felipe Calderon, is the latest weapon in a “cultural struggle” against drug cartels. The [...]

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ATF Gunwalker: Email Chain Shows White House Aware of Fast and Furious Operation

September 2, 2011

The emails indicate three White House officials were briefed on gun trafficking efforts that included Fast and Furious. The officials are Kevin O’Reilly, then-director of North American Affairs, now assigned to the State Department; Dan Restrepo, senior Latin American advisory; and Greg Gatjanis, a national security official. The White House officials were provided information on [...]

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Mexican Police Are Now Staging Drug Raids From Inside The U.S.

August 27, 2011

Under the new program, Mexican agents travel secretly to the U.S. where, with intel and support from the DEA, they launch so-called “boomerang missions” against suspected drug traffickers back across the border. The operations are yet another indication of the deteriorating security situation in Mexico. By staging operations from the U.S., both governments hope to [...]

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Firearms from ATF sting linked to 11 more violent crimes

August 16, 2011

Firearms from the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious weapons trafficking investigation turned up at the scenes of at least 11 violent crimes in the U.S., as well as at a Border Patrol agent’s slaying in southern Arizona last year, the Justice Department has acknowledged to Congress. The department did not provide details about the crimes. [...]

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ATF promotes supervisors involved in ‘Fast and Furious’ gun operation

August 16, 2011

The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico. All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many [...]

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6 detained in Moldova over bomb-grade uranium

July 1, 2011

Six people have been detained for smuggling an unspecified amount of the form of uranium that can be used to make a nuclear weapon, an official said Wednesday. Interior Ministry official Vitalie Briceag said the uranium-235 was brought in from Russia. He said the smugglers were trying to sell it to a North African country [...]

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Billion-dollar pledges for Central America security

June 23, 2011

The World Bank unveiled Wednesday a billion-dollar bid to support security measures in Central America, as the United States and Inter-American Development Bank upped their funding in the region as well. The new monies come amid an upsurge in drug-related killings in Central America, a region the United Nations says is now the world’s most [...]

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Nigerian ‘baby farm’ raided – 32 pregnant girls rescued

June 2, 2011

Nigerian police have raided an alleged “baby farm” where teenage mothers were forced to give up their newborns for sale to human traffickers. Thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued from a maternity home run by a trafficking ring in the southern city of Aba, police said. The girls, mostly of school age, were allegedly locked up [...]

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