The Terror Finance Blog: Where is Saudi Aid to Victims of the Taliban? Conspicuously neither Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz nor the rulers of any Arab or Muslim state are holding special national telethons to help raise funds for some 400,000 new Pakistani refugees. Many fled their homes after the Taliban took over the […]
Tickle The Wire » Mexican Drug Cartel Threatening to Take on U.S. Law Enforcement As if we needed more evidence of the threat the Mexican cartels pose to the United States, here’s the latest. Don’t be surprised to see more DEA agents in Mexico and possibly other U.S. personnel from other agencies– and even the […]
Hezbollah: Narco-Islamism (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Despite the differences between U.S. and European perceptions of and policies toward Hezbollah, there is one critical area where all parties’ mutual interests converge, namely law enforcement. Regardless of divergent political considerations or definitions of terrorism, combating crime and enforcing sovereign laws are straightforward issues. More than […]
The Terror Finance Blog: European Union Funding and the Push to Legitimize Hizballah Recent attempts by Britain to dialogue with Hizballah, and a planned address by Khaled Mashaal to Britsh MPs, may well be the result of a lobbying effort funded by the European Union. Jonathan Spyer, in an article yesterday, reports that The Conflicts […]
Unfortunately, the United States has already missed the boat and time has run out for any “catching up” in policy and tactics in dealing with Pakistan. Today, the world faces the stark and real possibility of Pakistan becoming a failed state and a haven for terrorism with potential nightmarish consequences. Can this be stopped and what should the U.S. do about it?
On March 31, Washington took its first step toward engagement with Tehran through a diplomatic encounter with the Iranian government at the Afghanistan conference in the Hague. Even though the initial contact was awkward, it was clearly a step forward for the Obama administration, and both countries agreed that the opium/heroin trade was a destructive force in both the region and the world. As such, the United States should consider using collaboration on counternarcotics as an effective means to jump-start diplomacy with Iran.
The Terror Finance Blog: Narco-Terrorism Can Be Defeated Narco-Terrorists and the international criminal organizations that thrive on the illegal drug trade now threaten the national security of many nations. The nexus between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups does not end with illegal drug trafficking. Their partnerships are complex, linking illegal drugs, money, geography and […]
April 7: The role of drugs in financing war and terrorism Drugs are a resource for making war, says Paul Rexton Kan, an associate professor at the U.S. Army War College and the co-author of “Drugs and Contemporary Warfare.” The drug trade has become interwoven with the war trade in unexpected ways, he says. Kan […]
The use of assault tactics by small organized groups of heavily armed assailants who either seize hostages or kill indiscriminately is certainly not new. Between 1995 and 2004, Chechen rebels staged three major armed assaults in Russia. Even the United States has not been immune to the danger of planned armed assaults. A list of post 9/11 terrorist plots against the United States includes a August 2005 conspiracy by a Pakistani national who was arrested planning an attack on the Israeli consulate, California National Guard facilities, and other targets in Southern California.
Homeland Security Today – news and analysis – Confluence of Evil: The Smuggling-Terrorism Nexus Counterfeit consumer items, tobacco smuggling and the more sinister trade in narcotics are all sources of income for foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Terrorism takes cash, and even if the cost-benefit balance leans in favor of the terrorists—a handful of cheap explosives […]
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