FTR #703 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Catching Up with the “Herd Shot ‘Round the World”
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.
Russia Alleges that NATO Aiding Afghan Heroin Production
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, [...]
NATO Refuses Russian Request to Destroy Afghan Opium Fields
Comment: In light of the massive volume of broadcasts available on this site about intelligence community involvement in drug trafficking, this should come as no surprise. “NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Poppy Fields”; New Europe; 3/26/2010. NATO and Russia clashed on 24 March over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where [...]
FTR #702 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law accused of sheltering war criminals; GOP rhetoric references Elin Woods; with bad economy, the influence of drug cartels increases; Growing clout of the militia movement, foot soldiers of the GOP.
Muslim Gangs Dominate British Underworld
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 [...]
United States Attorney Plans Drug-Terrorism Unit
US attorney in Manhattan is merging the two units in his office that prosecute terrorism and international narcotics cases, saying that he wants to focus more on extremist Islamic groups whose members he believes are increasingly turning to the drug trade to finance their activities.
Al Qaeda Linked to Rogue Aviation Network
In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called “the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11.”
FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave
William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japanese dominates the contemporary economic landscape; the engines of world political power turn in precision with these hidden engines of wealth.
FTR #685 Interview [#4] with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
Fundamental changes are needed in U.S. Afghan policy, including moderation of the use of firepower, elimination of corruption, altering of policy toward opium production and redefinition of American society.
FTR #684 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Business as Usual in South Florida
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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