Smuggling

Libyan revolutionary field commanders | politicians arming syrian rebels

May 29, 2013

Editor’s Note: Weapons transfer from Libya coordinated by whom? C.I.A, MI6, DGSE, MIT, Mossad, BND, Qatar intelligence, Saudi intelligence? Source: Time The beefy Libyan revolutionary field commander turned politician rose from the beige couch to greet his new Syrian guest, who pulled up a chair to join the two other Syrian men seated in a semicircle around [...]

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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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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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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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Is Russia Running a Secret Supply Route to Arm Syria’s Assad?

November 29, 2012

Source: Time On Nov. 27, a clip appeared on YouTube of a Russian-made Syrian military helicopter apparently being hit by Syrian rebels using a surface-to-air missile. The footage of the gunship, smoking as it turns and flies away, suddenly made the most effective killing machines in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military look very vulnerable, as [...]

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Syrian Rebels Have US Stinger Missiles – Russian General

October 24, 2012

Editors Notes: The Free Syrian Rebels “i.e. terrorists” have acquired more than US Stinger Missiles. Related Articles: Pentagon’s distribution of weapons for Iraq’s security forces smuggled to Syrian Rebels, Syrian rebels acquire surface-to-air missiles, U.S. Still Hunting for Missing Libyan Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), Largest Shipload of Libyan Weapons Heading to Armed Groups in [...]

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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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Operation Martillo: 200 US Marines deployed to Guatemala to combat cartels

August 30, 2012

Source: AP A team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala’s western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. The Marines are deployed as part of Operation Martillo, a broader effort started last Jan. 15 to stop drug trafficking along [...]

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Mexicans raise questions over CIA role in drug war

August 29, 2012

Source: AFP Mexican politicians demanded answers from their government on Wednesday after reports that two Americans wounded when federal police opened fire on a US embassy car were working for the CIA. The US and Mexican governments have said little about the victims’ work since last week’s shooting, a silence that has put a spotlight [...]

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Mexican official: CIA ‘manages’ drug trade

July 24, 2012

Source: Al Jazeera Juarez, Mexico- The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces “don’t fight drug traffickers”, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead “they try to manage the drug trade”. Allegations about official complicity in the drug business are nothing new when they come [...]

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Syria rebels get light arms, heavy weapons elusive

July 13, 2012

Source: Ma’an News Agency Syrian rebels are smuggling small arms into Syria through a network of land and sea routes involving cargo ships and trucks moving through Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, maritime intelligence and Free Syrian Army officers say. Western and regional powers deny any suggestion they are involved in gun running. Their interest in [...]

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Paramilitary emails allege CIA worked with Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia commander and drug lord

June 7, 2012

Source: Colombia Reports An estimated 700 emails from the computer of former AUC commander and drug lord Vicente Castaño revealed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and many top Colombian politicians may have been working with the paramilitary group. The emails, uncovered by RCN Radio, were delivered to Colombia‘s Prosecutor General’s Office by former AUC member [...]

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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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DEA opens anti-drug office in Bulgaria

April 3, 2012

Source: AFP The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) opened Tuesday an office in Bulgaria, a major drug trafficking crossroad that nevertheless hopes to achieve further integration into Europe. “Since the beginning of democracy in Bulgaria, we have worked closely with our counterparts in Bulgaria to stop global drug trafficking here, in Europe, and around [...]

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