August 1, 2008
NEFA Foundation Senior Investigator Douglas Farah testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade at a hearing titled, "Foreign Aid and the Fight Against Terrorism and Proliferation: Leveraging Foreign Aid to Achieve U.S. Policy Goals."
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Farah wrote of "new hybrids that make the traditional distinction between terrorism and organized crime, particularly drug trafficking, impossible to sustain." He added that "what draws these groups together, as overt state sponsorship for terrorism has been curtailed, are the shadow facilitators who understand how to exploit the seams in the international legal and economic structure, and who work with both terrorist and criminal organizations. Both groups use the same pipelines, the same illicit structures, and exploit the same state weaknesses, and are increasingly overlapping.
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