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Article: U.S. drug czar says drug-smuggling gangs help fund terrorist groups
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- August 31, 2002
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Dateline: TIJUANA, Mexico
There is no difference between the U.S. war on drugs and its war on
terror because a large chunk of the dlrs 60 billion Americans spend
on illicit drugs each year goes to fund terrorist groups, U.S. Drug
Czar John P. Walters said Friday.
Visiting the violent border city of Tijuana to participate in a forum
on drug-related violence against journalists, Walters said that Mexico'
s largest drug smuggling syndicate, the Arellano Felix Organization,
has financial ties to the guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and to al-Qaida.
He said the U.S. State Department reports that 12 of the world's 25
largest terrorist ...
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