Drug Czar Says Terrorism Profiting from Drugs
At least half the groups designated as “foreign terrorist organizations” by the State Department raise money from international drug trafficking, a Bush administration official said on Thursday. White House drug czar John Walters, credited with a federal anti-drug publicity campaign linking drug use among American adolescents with the financing of terror groups, told a police group, “The American drug consumer is the single most important funder of terrorism in this hemisphere.” He warned that secret channels used to ship narcotics into the United States could also transport biological or nuclear weapons. Full Story