Comment: It is no secret that major financial institutions, American and foreign, are deeply involved with laundering drugs for major smuggling operations. A recent article notes the involvement of B of A and Wachovia (now owned by Wells Fargo) in an operation that resulted in the bust of a DC-9 carrying 5.7 tons of cocaine. [...]
Jihadist elements welcomed in Georgia (former U.S.S.R.), apparently with U.S. blessing; Russian fascism growing;Pentagon buying “Peak Oil” hypothesis; corporate jets exempt from FAA regulations; cyber-attack on U.S. power grid?
Venice Airport a center of intrigue long before Mohammed Atta and company arrived; arms and drug trafficking a decades-long staple of the milieu that operated there; elements associated with the JFK hit operated here as well.
Islamist terror, drug smuggling and weapons trafficking are closely linked; major aviation networks serve all three and could be used to strike the U.S. with WMD’s; GOP and Grover Norquist are very close to these elements.
Infiltration point for the 9/11 hijackers, the Venice Airport has a history of involvement with wrongdoing and wrongdoers; Ponzi schemes the least heinous of their activities; the deep history of that facility overlaps the assassination of President Kennedy.
Comment: the refusal by the Marines to destroy the crop should not be surprising in and of itself. The impoverished Afghan farmers depend on it for income and in the “battle for hearts and minds,” that is an important consideration. Considering that other options are available, such as purchasing the opium to make medical morphine, [...]
Comment: Under-reported is the profound connection between Islamism and organized crime. There is an entire chapter in “Dollars for Terror” by Richard Labeviere titled “Islamist Deal-Making and Organized Crime.” Our visits with Daniel Hopsicker have highlighted this link, to an extent.
In fact, much of the income derived by groups like Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other [...]
9/11 hijackers were part of a vast international criminal network; Germans, Eastern Europeans at the hub of that network; drug-trafficking, massive fraud schemes are their stock in trade.
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