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I just got back from hearing Harvey Kushner speak at an event organized by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Harvey is the author of Holy War on the Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States.
Harvey advises government agencies such as the FBI in the war on terrorists. There’s so much to blog about what he had to say. I’m dashing out now to another event, so for the moment I’ll just make this note, and then blog more later.
He discussed how there’s a $1.5 billion illegal trade in this country for a drug called khat (pronounced like “cot” ). 70 tons of it were seized by police; the rule of thumb used by the police and the FBI indicates that means there’s another 700 tons that were illegally imported and sold. It’s used almost exclusively in Islamic communities. The profits of this illegal trade are believed to contribute to the funding of terrorist actions. But because of political correctness, MSM won’t cover it, so you haven’t heard of it. And because of political correctness, judges are lenient and loathe to punish the drug dealers and runners who have been arrested.
I’ll blog more on what Harvey discussed later.
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#2Hi Mike,
From page 75, in Chapter 5 of Holy War on the Home Front:
In a speech to the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force on the occasion of their twentieth-anniversayr confernece on July 30, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft told the audience, "Law enforcement has been aware for some time of significant linkages between terrorism and drug trafficking."
And from page 81:
The DEA is certainly aware of the connection between drugs and terrorism, according to its 2002 Drug Intelligence brief, "Drugs and Terrorism: A New Perspective":
Prior to September 11, 2001, drug trafficking and terrorist activities were usually addressed by the law enforcement community as separate issues. In the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania, the public now perceives these two criminal activities as intertwined.
...Not only is the proliferation of illegal drugs perceived as a danger, but also the proceeds from drugs are among the sources for finding for other criminal actiivites, including terrorism.
Can you email me the link that was blacklisted? I'll look into it.
Read more on Khat:
DEA Drug Intelligence Brief on Khat, created in 2002.
Note: I tried to post a link for the U.S. Department of Justice website for users to do a search on Khat, however the URL for the website has been blacklisted. Not sure why?
Nothing I found after reviewing these documents indicate a tie with funding terrorist actions, as Mr. Kushner suggests. Did he provide any resources that document this tie? I'm not asking as a challenge point to Mr. Kushners claim, I'm just interested in learning more about this topic. Until your post, I hadn't even heard of this drug. Now I see a lot of the traffic'ing of the drug is occurring in my own state.