Colombia Spent U.S. Anti-Drug Aid Hiding Political Ties to Drug Trade August 21, 2011 Print Version Source: Atlantic Wire The U.S.-funded counterinsurgency campaign against a Marxist rebel group in Colombia was viewed as so successful that it has become a model for strategy in Afghanistan. But things were not what they seemed: the Washington [...]
‘Fast and Furious’ weapons found at more violent crime scenes August 17, 2011 Print Version Source: WashTimes Weapons purchased during ATF’s controversial “Fast and Furious” undercover investigation, which included the sale to “straw buyers” of hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles, have turned up at a dozen violent crime scenes across the Southwest, the Justice Department [...]
ATF Promotes Operation Fast and Furious Supervisors August 16th, 2011 Via: Los Angeles Times: The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico. All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became [...]
Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels | Print | Written by Alex Newman Monday, 15 August 2011 16:27 3 The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government’s infamous “Operation Fast and Furious” scheme to send American weapons to Mexican drug cartels while simultaneously working with other agencies allowing narcotics to be shipped over [...]
US-Trained Guatemalan Forces Tied To Drug Gangs US-trained and supported militias ‘deeply infiltrated’ by violent drug cartels throughout Latin America by John Glaser, August 15, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Kaibiles, the ruthless U.S.-trained Guatemalan state militia infamous for their role in killing civilians during Guatemala’s civil war, [...]
CIA, US Military Operating Inside Mexico’s “Drug War” August 12, 2011 Print Version By Bill Van Auken – Global Research The Mexican government acknowledged Sunday that US intelligence and military officials are deployed inside Mexico, but refused to confirm details of a published report on their role in the country’s “drug war” for reasons of [...]
August 4th, 2011 Via: El Paso Times: U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court. The allegations are part of the defense of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was [...]
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Mexican Cocaine Kingpin Says U.S. Authorities Helped Protect His Drug Cartel August 4, 2011 Print Version Source: Latin American Herald Tribune CHICAGO – A Mexican man charged with smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States told a federal judge in Chicago that U.S. authorities protected his outfit, the powerful Sinaloa cartel, in exchange for [...]
July 27, 2011 Print Version Source: CNS News Washington (CNSNews.com) – At least one person in the White House knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gun-running operation three months before weapons from the botched sting were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. That’s what a [...]
Guns from ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Found at Mexican Crime Scenes July 27th, 2011 Via: Reuters: At least 122 firearms from a botched U.S. undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, a Republican congressional report issued on Tuesday said. Mexican authorities found AK-47 [...]
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‘The Knights Templar’: Mexico’s Newest Drug Cartel [???] July 25th, 2011 Don’t miss the one about La Santa Muerte. Via: Al Jazeera: Pictures of the latest objects seized by the police in the Mexican state of Michoacan, revealed that the mysterious ‘Knights Templar” drug cartel is more bizarre than most people imagine. There were [...]
Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants July 17, 2011 Print Version Source: LA Times Congressional investigators probing the controversial “Fast and Furious” anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants, officials said Saturday. The investigators have [...]
The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In July 14th, 2011 Via: AmpedStatus: Anyone who researches the “War on Drugs” already knows that it has been a very costly disaster. As the Global Commission on Drug Policy recently reported: “The global war [...]
Ahmed Wali Karzai, Brother of Afghan President, Killed by Trusted Guard July 12th, 2011 I don’t know if this assassination has anything to do with Ahmed Karzai’s links to heroin trafficking, but here’s an excerpt from a 2008 New York Times piece that’s pretty interesting: When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of [...]
ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Shades of Iran/Contra Scandal July 11, 2011 Print Version Bill Conroy – narcosphere Congressional Inquiry Raising Specter of Spooks in the Soup The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations [...]
