In 2007, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced a merger between the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM)
In November 2010, Moroccan police detained 34 people with ties to al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM), attempting to move 1,300 pounds of cocaine through Morocco.
The Moroccan Interior Minister said "We are dealing with an apparent coordination and collaboration between drug traffickers and terrorists linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb."
He said that the leader of AQIM's drug ring was detained in Mali.
He said that the international drug ring involved Moroccan drug traffickers, who were collaborating with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as cartels in Latin America.
"According to UN reports, nearly 60 percent of the cocaine sold in Europe transits through weak West African states such as Mali, Niger, Mauritania, and Guinea Bissau...
"As many of these same countries are now becoming a haven for a shadowy group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), there are growing concerns that Islamist radicals and Latin American drug cartels may be working together, both to enrich themselves and to weaken the law enforcement capability of those West African states." (Latin America's drug cartels giving Al Qaeda a lift?.)
David Headley worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
The "close institutional relationship between the DEA and the CIA continues up to the present day". (Alfred W. McCoy)
According to Daniel Hopsicker: Barry Seal "told investigators that between March 1984, and August 1985, he made a quarter-million dollars smuggling up to 15,000 kilos of cocaine while working for the DEA."(Barry Seal)
1.Al Qaeda(CIA) in North Africa ... "appears to be involved in the trafficking of Latin American cocaine through Africa to Spain".
2. Michael Braun, chief of operations at the DEA until 2008, says "There is more clear evidence showing al Qaeda's (CIA's) growing involvement in the Afghan heroin trade on the Pakistan side of the border."
3.Dawood Ibrahim runs a 5,000 member gang involved in narcotics and operates mostly from Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates.
According to the US government, Ibrahim shares smuggling routes with al Qaeda (CIA) and has worked with both al Qaeda and its affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Lashkar has been blamed for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, possibly with Ibrahim's help.
4. According to a federal indictment, in 2006 a Pakistani financier for Lashkar-e-Taiba handed David Headley of Chicago $25,000 to conduct video surveillance in India in preparation for the Mumbai attack.
"Arif Qasmani, a chief Lashkar coordinator who has raised funds from crime boss Ibrahim, has been providing al Qaeda with supplies and weapons.
"In return al Qaeda loaned to Lashkar operatives who helped carry out the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai."
"The CIA created a unit in Haiti, whose purported purpose was anti-drug activity, but was in reality 'used as an instrument of political terror', and was heavily involved in drug trafficking.
"The members of the unit were known to torture Aristide supporters... According to one U.S. official, the unit was trafficking drugs and never produced any useful drug intelligence" [11] (CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)
According to Peter Dale Scott, Mexico's intelligence agency, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad, was in part a CIA creation.
DFS badges, "handed out to top-level Mexican drug-traffickers, have been labelled by DEA agents a virtual 'license to traffic.'"[7]
Scott says that "The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nassar (or Nazar) Haro, a CIA asset."[7](CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)
When the spooks stage a false flag terror attack, they need to make sure that their agents, and patsies, are in place in key positions.
Some of these agents, or patsies, may be, or may appear to be, firemen, or ambulance crew, or journalists, or policemen or whatever.
Some may be involved in drugs.
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When PanAm 103 came down over Lockerbie, it is reported that the spooky people were ready and waiting.
On 7 July 2005, certain ambulances were being driven into London from Surrey, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire to help, but, there were others "in central London very near this site" that were not mobilised. (7/7 inquests: Firemen, equality and 'absurd' response to July 7 ...)
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Simon Ford is a fireman.
He could be called to give evidence at the 7/7 inquiry.
He may know 'too much' about the 7/7 attacks on London.
On 7 July 2005, Simon Ford was at the scene of the explosion on the bus in Tavistock Square in London.
He won a medal for leading 'victims' to safety.
He lived a 'champagne lifestyle' and drove two Audis.
On 5 January 2011, we learn that Simon Ford, according to the police, was a key player in a gang that ran a £100 million drug empire."
Omar Khayam, who, in 2002, was given an eight year jail sentence for drugs offences. He was released in 2005. In January 2006, Khayam was pictured outside Denmark's embassy in London wearing a simulated suicide bomb outfit. In 2010 he was jailed for being part of a drugs gang.
So called 'Islamist' terrorists often turn out to be people involved with drugs, drink, prostitution and prison.
A report in The Independent, in May, 2009, described how British Moslems are sometimes recruited by the UK security services.
A group described how they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or facing detention and harassment. (How MI5 blackmails British Muslims.)
There was said to be more than one Lee Harvey Oswald.
What makes things complicated is that the 'Moslem terrorists' sometimes have doubles.
There is the Mohamed Atta last seen in Hamburg; he had his passport stolen in Germany in 1999.
There is the 'imposter' Mohamed Atta who spoke Hebrew and who attended International Officer's School in Montgomery, Alabama.
According to Postman Patel: Nisha Patelworked for the police as a Special Constable.
Nisha Patel,before she was murdered, ran the "Seventh Heaven" , a brothel/escort agency, with her husband Nasri Patel.
Nasri Patel would often make the claim that his wife Nisha had high-powered friends at Scotland Yard who'd protect him.
On one occasion Nisha Patel tried to collect, from client J, on a bouncing £1,800 cheque.
She indicated that she was on 'police business'.
J called the police.
47 year old Sergeant David Eden sent a report to the Metropolitan (London) Police Professional Standards department; and he sent a formal complaint to Wembley police station, where Nasri Patel worked.
After Nisha Patel was murdered, Sergeant Eden again approached the Metropolitan police.
He was told that his previous report could not be released.
He later discovered that the hard disk of his Hertfordshire police computer, where he had stored a copy, had been wiped.
Police Commander Rod Jarman said that a matter had been brought to his attention by Sergeant Eden, adding: "It was dealt with by way of formal discipline."
According to Sergeant Eden, Nisha Patel had told him:
1. She could have him out of his job.
2. "You don't know who you're f***ing with!"
Nisha Patel was not sacked.
At Nisha's funeral More than 100 police officers formed a guard of honour on the road leading to Golders Green Crematorium in north London, as the funeral cortege arrived.
The coffin was adorned with the Metropolitan Police Service drape and Nisha's police helmet.
Chief Inspector Julia Pendry, one of her closest colleagues, was among those to read a eulogy at the service.
"It is evident by the number of police colleagues here today that Nisha was well liked and popular member of the policing family who will be sadly missed."
At the time of her murder Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said: "Our hearts go out to Nisha's husband and family and friends. It is a tragedy that a young woman who willingly gave up so much of her valuable free time to work as a police officer in her local community should lose her life in this terrible way.
"Nisha was tremendously popular with her colleagues, who regarded her a real team player and her death is a huge loss to the Metropolitan Police Service.
In Venezuela, "there is the bloody gang warfare caused by drug trafficking, partly as a result of the presence of Colombian paramilitaries and guerrillas."
In Venezuela there is "a corrupt and underpaid police force; and the streets (are) awash with illegal arms, with estimates ranging from 6m-15m in a country of 29m." (Caracas accuses media over crime coverage)
The UN’s latest figures show that the murder rate in Venezuela is 52 per 100,000.
According to Bill Weinberg (LATIN DRUG WAR), a satellite-aided system (SIVAM), built by Raytheon, is used to monitor the narcotics traffic through Brazil's Amazon rain forest.
"The Brazilian Air Force Minister, Brig. Gen. Mauro Gandra, was forced to resign after police released a tape of a Raytheon representative and a Cardoso presidential aide discussing bribes to Senators to grease approval of the project."
According to official US aid agency documents, the USA has given over $50 million dollars to the opposition controlled NGO's and political 'fronts' which promote US interests.
The Right's previous standard bearer, ex President Carlos Andres Perez was convicted of multi-million dollar fraud and pillage of the public treasury.
Local opposition governors and majors have also been indicted for fraud and malfeasance of funds and are holed up in Miami.
Some of Chavez's lot are not untainted.
3. In the Brazil, the Presidential elections has the Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff, backed by Lula, against the the Brazilian Social Democratic Party's Jose Serra.
Serra will be more pro-USA, and will be less friendly with Iran, Venezuela and Bolivia.
Serra will reduce spending on education, health and poverty programs.
In the case of Brazil's massive oil and gas fields, Serra will increase the role of private foreign oil companies.
The CIA has a history of using drugs gangs.
At the Asian Tribune (Drug money used as a geopolitics weapon by CIA-RAW-Mossad.), Asif Haroon Raja reported that one reason the USA invaded Afghanistan was so as to restore and control "the world's largest supply of opium ... and to use drugs as a geopolitics weapon against opponents, especially Russia...
"While the international drug mafia is fully controlled by Zionists, the CIA is complicit in the global drug trade... There are credible reports that US military planes have been made use of... Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds ... testified to the use of NATO planes transporting drugs as well as international terrorists."
"Colombia is currently the center of the South American drug trade, producing more than 80 percent of the world’s cocaine supply." - Website for this image
In 1989, theKerry Committee reportconcluded that members of the U.S. State Department "who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking...and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers."
In 1996 a Miami jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and longtime CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who was smuggling cocaine into the United States from a Venezuelan warehouse owned by the CIA.
"CIA involvement in Colombia began in the 1950s and grew along with the drug trade.
"In 1991 the CIA established a Colombian naval intelligence group that became a key part of the death squads' continuing terror campaign against ... anyone who speaks out for change or peace."(War on Drugs CIA, Cocaine, and Death Squads)