up at the NY Post. (Registration required-
!) Sources told the DEA that Osama met with Colombian cartel leaders, and discussed buying tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine from them, poisoning it, and shipping it on to America to kill thousands of cokeheads.
Damn tootin' it would be bad for business! (pun intended.) Let's see: the cartels have a guaranteed annual income in the, oh, high hundred millions from these people, and Mister Turban Pants here wants to murder them all at once? Ever hear that story about the goose and the golden egg? That's a no-brainer for these rational businessmen, especially since such a collaboration would cause America to go all Clear & Present Danger--or more likely, Without Remorse-- upon their comfortable, secure buttockses.
So it's no surprise that the cartels turned Osama down. What's surprising is that he made such an idiotic offer in the first place--if in fact he did, and this source isn't just shining the DEA on. (Which I think is the most likely explanation for this story.)
And the other huge surprise is that in 2002, the Cartel leaders allowed themselves to meet with this guy. That's a huge risk right there. In fact...
If this meeting really happened, I think what went down is this. The Cartels saw a huge opportunity here--negotiate with Bin Laden, shine him on, string him along...
...and put in a back-channel call to the CIA, saying that "we're meeting with Osama bin Laden at a certain secret place in a week, and we'll give him to you if you'll just look the other way on us for fifteen years. Nobody has to know, you guys just pick up OBL, and we just stay out of the picture and mind our own business".
That's what I'd do, if I were a cartel leader.
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Can someone loan me a tinfoil hat so I can continue reading that story?
Posted by: Venom at July 26, 2005 02:36 PM (dbxVM)
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Greg, I deleted your comment because it's just way off topic. I realize Abu Ghraib is important to you, but you can probably find a better place to stick that. Um, a more topical posting, I mean. Or maybe Rusty will let you guest blog.
Posted by: See-Dubya at July 26, 2005 03:19 PM (gSexA)
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If I were POTUS and got that offer, we'd have Bin Laden's head on a stick, and I'd demand the cartel kick in a couple of baggies for the party to celebrate.
Posted by: Pigpen at July 26, 2005 03:22 PM (PX+vn)
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Whether this story is true or not, I think cooperation between South American drug cartels and Jihadi terrorists is a very real potential danger. Especially when it comes to smuggling terrorists and their equipment in through Mexico.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at July 26, 2005 03:29 PM (RHG+K)
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I picked up on this story earlier from Ms. Malkin's blog.
I am skeptical of the story, but it illustrates nicely how the market regulates itself (ones take on the drug war & drugs in general need not enter into that). America and Western Europe are not the enemy of the cocaine cartels they are their markets.
Why skeptical? I have this inkling those dropping over would serve more as examples for parents trying to keep their children off of drugs. While this is a generalization (I have known some druggies who did a real good job leading a normal productive lives) it seems to me those dropping dead would not be too terribly missed by the larger society. The last reason is it is well known the terrorist types often finance their operations through the drug market and I do not see why Al-Qaida would not be doing the same thing themselves. Remember, they justify much of their counter-Islamic activities by saying those naughty activities are permitted against apostates & kaffirs.
One last note. In WWII, the mafia actively cooperated with our government.
Posted by: Marcus Aurelius at July 26, 2005 03:31 PM (3dnZJ)
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"Osama met with Colombian cartel leaders, and discussed buying tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine from them, poisoning it, and shipping it on to America to kill thousands of cokeheads."
Whoever ends up killing bin Laden should first congratulate him on a darn good idea.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at July 26, 2005 03:35 PM (0Ber+)
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C-W:'Greg, I deleted your comment because it's just way off topic.'
I see. Half the posts on these strings are off topic. Deletion of an off topic post seems to occur only when the post is counter to the Ziocon viewpoint.
C-W:"maybe Rusty will let you guest blog"
That's so funny, I have either sprained a rib or my lungs. (wipes snot from nose).
Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 03:51 PM (/+dAV)
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“The solution to Afghanistan's opium?
Earlier this year the head of the United Nations drugs control agency said efforts to tackle Afghanistan's growing drugs trade were failing. The UK-based development agency Spirit Aid offers a radical solution to the problem.
Afghanistan produces 75% of the world's opium, says the UN
During the 1990s, five or six provinces in Afghanistan were cultivating opium poppy.
Since the fall of the Taleban, that number has increased to 28 out of 32 regions. That is a major factor in worsening violence this year as people struggle to survive and fight for control of this illegal, socially damaging but lucrative resource.
Afghan farmers produce opium that is sold for some $2.3bn, according to United Nations estimates.
Its value is vastly inflated beyond that by the time it reaches its Western consumers.
Despite this, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest places on Earth.
Collectively the farmers receive less than half a per cent of the wealth generated by their illegal crops. Much of the revenue ends up with local militias.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3704878.stm
Ziocons.,
Rest assured that Karzai and the Bushiosi receive their cut of the profits.
Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 04:28 PM (/+dAV)
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See, Greg, that's fine on-topic crazy batcrap loonball ranting. So do you think Halliburton just has a secret department that launders a couple billion in smack profits, or that the "Bushiosi" actually distribute the drugs directly into our inner cities themselves? And Cheney's "undisclosed location" is actually a burned out tenement in Anacostia guarded by starving Dobermans, where he hangs out a "SPECIAL FARM-TO-THE-ARM PRESIDENTIAL DISCOUNT" banner?
Posted by: See-Dubya at July 26, 2005 04:53 PM (gSexA)
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Osama would have better luck and access in poisoning the opium produced by our buddies, the Afghan War Lords.
Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 05:03 PM (/+dAV)
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Ah ha. But much of that opium goes to Iran, and through Iran to Turkey and Europe, where OBL wants to be wanted. But with the coke, much of that comes right to the USA. (BTW This was the first I'd heard about him having a heroin distribution network here, and believe me I follow this stuff.)
Posted by: See-Dub at July 26, 2005 05:08 PM (gSexA)
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Dayum, I'm just glad to see I'm not the only one willing to whack off-topic comments.
Posted by: Mad Dog Vinnie at July 26, 2005 06:18 PM (Kr6/f)
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Come on Greg. You know the real reason. Everyone thinks you are a traitorous asshole.
Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 08:31 PM (CBNGy)
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Rooster you have nothing intelligent to say, only threats.
Posted by: greg at July 27, 2005 08:50 AM (/+dAV)
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But the fact that everyone thinks you are a traitorous asshole sticks. Is that a threat? Traitorous asshole.
Posted by: greyrooster at July 28, 2005 04:21 AM (CBNGy)
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all I can say is wow, what a freak he is ... lets see what is his achilles heal ... one way or another he will eventually caught ...can't wait !!! make him shave and cut that diaper of f his head ... make him eat some USA bacon ...
Posted by: gina at July 29, 2005 01:37 AM (ESp0d)
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