19 December 2009

US arrests three Africans in "al Qaeda cocaine sting"

Intriguing story. Americans pretending to be FARC [so that proves theyre drug smugglers] approach three guys from Mali, who are suuposed to be associates [whatever that means] of al Qaeda's Northern African branch [whatever that is] [and which will be used to prove that al Qaeda smuggles drugs]. Its a good one. None of it needs to be true but it will be used by academic/journalists as "evidence" of all sorts of stuff, like organised crime terrorism and financing are all interlinked. We shall see what happens in the trial.

1 comment:

Marcin Sawicki said...

Read this: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-al-qaeda-cocaine19-2009dec19,0,1837370.story

and this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121804042.html

Los Angeles Times sheds more light on why DEA agents chose faked FARC identity.

PS
Great blog. Keep on doing this. Regards,