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Article: Afghan heroin tied to terror; Drugs finance Iraq insurgents.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2005
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Byline: Rowan Scarborough, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Insurgents and foreign terrorists in Iraq are being financed in part by the illicit drug trade originating in Afghanistan and passing through Iraq to Europe, congressional and defense sources say.
Money from Afghan-produced heroin is being used by terror cells to buy weapons and equipment, and pay Iraqi citizens to conduct attacks on U.S. troops and to plant deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs), U.S. officials say.
In a Sept. 8 letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde wrote of an "emerging and dangerous growth of the illicit ...