Post Tagged with: "Enrique S. “Kiki” Camarena"

March 5, 2010 07:17

Brutal DEA agent murder reminder of agency dangers – despite half of terrorist groups having drug ties, DEA short changed

The agents said funding shortages and hiring freezes not only threatened efforts to reduce rapidly increasing violent drug crime, but also hampered efforts to combat terrorism worldwide. Many, in interviews this week with The Washington Times, noted that the illicit profit from global drug trafficking is a key source of revenue for terrorist organizations, adding that half of the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations have drug ties.