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-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Bin Laden's Drugs Plot To Kill Thousands'
2005-07-26
Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States hoping to kill thousands, according to reports.The plot failed when Colombian drug lords decided it would be bad for business if they got involved in the deal.
Ya don't say. Few more shrewd bidness people in the world than a Columbian drug dealer.
An investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration has examined how advanced the plot became when it was hatched a year after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The Washington Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA's findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.

Osama bin Laden personally met leaders of a Colombian drug cartel to in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of tons of cocaine, saying that he was willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to finance the deal. "They wanted to kill thousands of people - more than the World Trade Centre," said a source.

Although the drug lords would have reaped millions of dollars in profits by selling the cocaine to bin Laden, they knew that if his plan succeeded it might effectively destroy the market for their cocaine in America.
They prob'ly recalled the fairy tale about the Golden Goose ...
The other was their fear of retaliation from the US government once its citizens started to die from the drugs, according to sources.
And we might not take the trouble to figure out the final points of who did what ...
In 2002, the then DEA Director Asa Hutchinson said: "The DEA [has] received multi-source information that Osama bin Laden himself has been involved in the financing and facilitation of heroin-trafficking activities.

"It is important we recognise that when money goes from the pocket of an American to buy drugs, it may contribute to the financing of unspeakable crimes of violence around the world."

Earlier this year, Afghan tribal leader Hajji Bashir Noorzai who was one of the most wanted drug dealers in the world and previously had been identified as bin Laden's major heroin supplier, was arrested in New York City on federal criminal charges.
Source?
I found the source, it's Drudge; now added. Nockeyes, you need to have a source or your post is very likely to be deleted. AoS.
Posted by:nockeyes nilberforce

#19  "Big Hollywood Moonbats Hardest Hit"
Posted by: Ebbaviting Glalet8043   2005-07-26 22:59  

#18  Methinks this plan might invoke the law of unintended consequence. Cocaine usage might be a touch higher in areas of Blue America than Red. End result might not be to Osama's favour.
Posted by: john   2005-07-26 20:38  

#17  Columbia Records - they wanted to market his CD sermon's and Fatwa DVD's
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-26 20:25  

#16  Nobody's convincing me that OBL traveled to Colombia in 2002 or even dared to receive visitors from Colombia.
Posted by: Neutron Tom   2005-07-26 19:31  

#15  If Binny's got all the Heroin from Afghanistan as the article says why not just use that, he got some love for the smack that he can't pollute it and send it to the heathen Americans?

There are all sorts of ludicrosities in this article. 1 that Binny has to meet with the Columbians to actually buy cocaine directly from the cartels. That's stupid, he could have bought all he wanted through a proxy and done what he damn well wnted with it. Is there some questionnaire you have to fill out to buy from the cartels these days? Mother's maiden name, source of income, last large shipment of cocaine you received and 3 references? Oh and I forgot, two forms of picture ID.

But to follow a previous line of thought, why kill the most useless members of a society? To scare the rest of us? Whatever, Phuck the crackheads, good riddance. This might actually save us money when we don't have to spend healthcare dollars on them. I think we need to file this one under B for bullshit.

EP
Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding   2005-07-26 18:31  

#14  How would Bin Laden meet with Colombian drug cartel members in the first place?
Posted by: Shinetch Slerenter7807   2005-07-26 18:16  

#13  Let me guess - after this operation, bin Laden's next big thing would have been to destroy large sections of the Bronx.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-07-26 18:13  

#12  Mass casualties in drug addicts would not be an effective way for Binny to create terror in the general populace. The general populace would not give a rat's behind about addicts' massive dieoffs. Just one of those plans in the universe of ideas that did not go anywhere.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-07-26 17:10  

#11  I smell rats, here. While Osama ol' boy wouldn't know it, the "drug lords" would. First of all, you're talking distributing a huge amount of cocaine without interdiction, down to street level. Second, all the major US cities get bad batches of drugs all the time, they're used to it, and get the word out to users and dealers pretty effectively. Third, cocaine is unusual in that it has two markets: powder for the rich and crack for the poor. Dealers of powder do *not* want to sell bad product to rich people--they would come up with a test very quickly to maintain quality assurance. This leaves crack, most consumed by the very lowest classes in the US. As a country, would the US even mind, or even notice, if we lost a few thousand crack addicts?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-07-26 16:56  

#10  LOL!
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-26 16:38  

#9  LOL! I mean yes. Now is our chance. Keep an eye out for mauve and soon we'll have um.... soon we'll have....

Suddenly an elderly Golden Retriever spoke up..... stop this now b4 it's too late.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-26 16:26  

#8  Don't even try, Frank. I've got Steves' back and so do a couple other folks here LOL.
Posted by: rkb   2005-07-26 16:19  

#7  ahhhh infighting among the AOS! Here's the crack in the wall we needed!
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-26 16:17  

#6  Well, if she's not available, I will.
Posted by: Steve   2005-07-26 16:13  

#5  You're right. I started looking at page 1 and didn't check page 2. Aarrrgh. Now Emily will start teasing me again about the 'no duplicates' policy.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-07-26 16:08  

#4  This is already on Page 2, with a comment from the poster as well. Different links, but the articles are not substantially different.
Posted by: Dar   2005-07-26 15:31  

#3  Islam... the opiate of the massgraveses
Posted by: Hyper   2005-07-26 14:45  

#2  source can be found via Drudge
Posted by: Jeath Sheck4194   2005-07-26 14:42  

#1  What's with these people??? Don't they hold anything sacred???
Posted by: danking70   2005-07-26 14:37  

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