Links Between Terrorism and Drug Trafficking

The links between terrorism and drug trafficking are real and growing, according to officials and former officials who participated in the special symposium at the headquarters of the agency drug enforcement of America (DEA). Featured several interventions invited to this synopsis.

A good approach that can be done, on the increases in drug trafficking that focus on terrorist organizations such as the Taliban regime, the armed forces of revolutionary weapon of Colombia (FARC) and the Islamic Jihad.


Since the 50s, shortly after the Korean War, began to separate communism in Latin America, from Cuba to spread to other countries in the region, with Colombia attending this whip.

Born in 1952, the FARC (Armed Revolutionary Communist League) and in 1960 the ELN (National Army) from the release, below the PLA (People's Army) from the release, the M-19 (movement nineteenth. April) and AUC ( Colombia United Self-Defense) where opposition to the government to achieve its goal: To achieve power through force of arms and strong violence.

In the eighties, the drug appears as a serious new ingredient for the war in Colombia, (planting, processing and marketing of cocaine and heroin) have been taken first by the "drug cartels" in principle unrelated groups subversives. After 1995 it will become a part of the business of subversive groups who found this as the largest revenue source for financing and weapons trade, ammunition and explosives

To monitor and look at terrorism, many other fields of interest such as seeking funding for terrorists seeking narcotics.

In areas where government control is weak, the criminal underworld, drug traffickers and terrorists are all there.

The links between terrorists and drug traffickers are combined into local ethnic communities to conceal their activities. Both operate from countries where enforcement is weak base and government law, and both need the money laundering. Also try to create a climate of fear and intimidation and both look to young people, especially for recruitment. Also both seek a world unable to coexist with democratic values.

The members of the Taliban are a group of drug traffickers, is a fact that can not be clearer. To gain control of the heroin traded in Afghanistan, where he attained power in 1995, 1999, which control 71% of global heroin market.

The notice of the Taliban in 1999, about his decision not to allow more production of heroin in Afghanistan, had forgotten the assumption - terrorism does not work without money. That is the decisive factor.

The kingpin Pablo Escobar of the illicit drug was also a terrorist. When using the illegal drug profits, the terrorist and the dealer paid for the killing of 500 policemen in Medellin, Colombia. He also paid for the murder of four Colombian presidential candidate, along with narcotics official and minister of Justice of Colombia's largest counter. Moreover, his tormentors were responsible for the explosion of a car bombing in Bogota that killed 157 people.

Escobar turned it into a "narcotic-terrorist" because of the narcotics activities of terrorist group FARC in Colombia and the paramilitary "self-defense forces" in that country.