Thursday, December 30, 2010

Al-Qaeda in North Africa (AQIM) receiving funding by smuggling drugs [destined for Europe] across the Sahara desert, for left-wing Marxist Columbian FARC terrorists and other South American drugs gangs

From The Daily Telegraph

Islamic rebels [from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)] familiar with the barren terrain of the Sahara have struck deals under which they provide armed security escorts for drug traffickers in return for a slice of their profits.

Olivier Guitta, a counter-terrorism and foreign affairs consultant, said that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Marxist rebel group, was the "force behind the agreement with AQIM".

In the past drugs were flown or shipped from South America straight to Spain or Portugal but the introduction of more rigorous controls in those countries led FARC to change its way of operating.

Terrorists linked to al-Qaeda in north Africa have made $130m (£84m) from helping drugs gangs and kidnap ransoms since 2007, according to one report citing an investigation by the Algerian government.

AQIM first emerged under a different name as an Islamic resistance group opposed to Algeria's secular government in the early 1990s and was behind numerous suicide bombings and ambushes.



Source: The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)



Comments: Yet another Unholy Alliance on the Axis of Evil side.

Left-wing terrorists, criminals, criminally-insane or naively-insane, and Islamic terrorists are all the same so it's natural for there to be some co-operation between them.

But evil is never stable so they will start fighting among themselves later on.



Some previous similar or related stories:

US backed 'ex-terrorist' KLA allegedly killed and harvested organs of Serb civilians but nothing done - justice sacrificed for short-term stability [Another source of funding, by harvesting human organs.]

Al-Qaeda in North Africa (AQIM), shopping for weapons with kidnap ransom money [An additional source of funding]

Hugo Chavez and Iran in an Unholy alliance [Some say Chavez is linked to FARC terrorists]

COVER-UP: Brazil denies terrorism threat as it is “extremely sensitive” towards Muslim community in the country – WikiLeaks US embassy cables [Terrorists or their financiers allegedly operating in the so-called Triple Border region between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.]

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