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Narcotics and Terrorists

Taliban is making some $100 million a year from drugs in Afghanistan while making successful war upon the Afghans and their Coalition partners. Afghanistan provides a new case in an old pattern: insurgency and terrorism often go together with drug production and trafficking. [1]  Photo: 2009 Afghan farmer in poppy field.  http://depetris.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/can-the-bombing-of-the-afghan-drug-patch-really-dampen-the-taliban-led-insurgency/For More on Terrorist Strategy in Countering Counter-InsurgencyIs the Nexus Between Crime and Terrorism Growing?This nexus is not new, but has been common in certain past conflict zones.  Neither is the linkage universal: many terrorists neither use nor deal in drugs.  Some are quite puritanical; others have very different vices.  This should be kept in mind since, once a month, it seems, a commentator declares that the nexus between crime and terrorism is “growing” or “strengthening.” Most offer no evidence…

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Chris Harmon

Chris Harmon

Christopher C. Harmon holds the Horner Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA. Author of two editions of Terrorism Today (2000; 2007) he has also been publishing essays...