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The Growing Drug-Terrorism Nexus

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We’re familiar with some of the ways radical Islamist terrorism may be funded, but there’s one staring us in the face that we have yet to deal with. FSM Contributing Editor Douglas Farah has a disturbing report on how drug trafficking may be our undoing in more ways than one.
 By Douglas Farah

There is much written on terrorist financing and possible sources of radical Islamist financing. We write about the Saudis (true), commodities (true) and many other parts of the puzzle. But, as the latest U.N. assessment from Afghanistan shows, one of the biggest sources of revenue now available to at least some parts of the Islamist forces is from heroin production and trafficking. Afghanistan has set a new record on poppy production this year, as it did last year, and the year before.

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