Fatherland tries to tie pot to 'terrorists'
Number of marijuana plants seized at Sequoia has soared. Officials say Mexican cartels linked to Mideast terrorists run the operation. ... The pot fields are financed by the Mexican drug cartels that dominate the methamphetamine trade in the adjacent Central Valley, drug enforcement officials say. The officials say there is evidence that the cartels, in turn, have financial ties to Middle Eastern smugglers linked to Hezbollah and other groups accused of terrorism. <snip> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot14may14,1,4366659.story?coll=la%2... If the middle-eastern freedom fighters actually had ties to Mexico, not just sending some $ that way, you can kiss your texas ranch goodbye. ---- I love the smell of RDX in the morning. It smells like.. victory.
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
If the middle-eastern freedom fighters actually had ties to Mexico, not just sending some $ that way, you can kiss your texas ranch goodbye.
Let's see, Afghanistan produces more opium than any other place on the planet, heroin gets orders of magnitude more $/kilo, so "terrorists" need to pay mexico to grow pot. It's a big enough lie, most people will swallow it! Sheesh, like the CIA needs another cash crop... Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Mike Rosing wrote:
If the middle-eastern freedom fighters actually had ties to Mexico, not just sending some $ that way, you can kiss your texas ranch goodbye.
Let's see, Afghanistan produces more opium than any other place on the planet,
I've heard that too, and it may even be accurate, but I travelled through Af some years back (1974, before the Russian invasion and much else) and it very definitely is not what I saw. There was opium aplenty in the Shah's Iran. His family owned a lot of it. One of his relatives was busted at Paris airport bringing in several kilos of morphine and screaming about diplomatic immunity. We were offerred O in Teheran and our Iranian hosts were smoking it in Mashad. In Af, there was hashish more-or-less everywhere, and exceedingly high quality. Everyone from customs officials and military officers to street urchins and respectable merchants offerred it to us. I don't think that, in several weeks in the country, we ever spent more than a half hour in public without someone trying to sell us hash. Friends visited a warehouse with hundreds of kilos in it. We were not offerred opium. I'd say that if opium is indeed a major crop in Af now, then the situation was created by some combination of US pressure on other sources, the Islamic gov't in Iran suppressing it there, various groups -- including Bin Laden's lads -- needing money to fight the Russians, Taliban (probably with the help of the CIA and Pakistani Intelligence, who created them) needing money, ...
heroin gets orders of magnitude more $/kilo, so "terrorists" need to pay mexico to grow pot.
It's a big enough lie, most people will swallow it!
Sheesh, like the CIA needs another cash crop...
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Sandy Harris wrote:
In Af, there was hashish more-or-less everywhere, and exceedingly high quality. Everyone from customs officials and military officers to street urchins and respectable merchants offerred it to us. I don't think that, in several weeks in the country, we ever spent more than a half hour in public without someone trying to sell us hash. Friends visited a warehouse with hundreds of kilos in it.
We were not offerred opium.
This is what I've read from people on the ground there now. Basicly, opium is a crop for sale, but hash is the drug of choice.
I'd say that if opium is indeed a major crop in Af now, then the situation was created by some combination of US pressure on other sources, the Islamic gov't in Iran suppressing it there, various groups -- including Bin Laden's lads -- needing money to fight the Russians, Taliban (probably with the help of the CIA and Pakistani Intelligence, who created them) needing money, ...
It grows well there on top of it all, and gets a high value. All the rest is opportunism. I guess it'd be nice if a lot of that "nice quality hash" made it back to the US. But I suspect our troops will smoke it all first! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
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