Paying for Terror
How jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics--and profits--to finance attacks on targets around the globe
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) (Morocco, Europe) Funded Madrid and Casablanca bombings with drug profits; also does financial fraud, counterfeiting.
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) (Algeria, Europe) Al Qaeda ally engaged in kidnapping, armed robbery, extortion, drugs, human smuggling, fraud.
Iraq insurgency (Iraq) Insurgent groups raise funds from criminal rackets, including extortion, kidnapping for ransom, and theft and smuggling of oil.
Al Qaeda (Afghanistan/Pakistan) Osama bin Laden's followers in the region engage in kidnapping, antiquities smuggling, robbery, and financial fraud.
Taliban (Afghanistan) Taliban insurgents profit from Afghan narcotics through trafficking and taxes on shipments.
D Company (South Asia, U.A.E.) Indian mafia gang allied with Islamic terrorists; engaged in narcotics, extortion, arms smuggling, contract murder, kidnapping.
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Hezb-i-Islami/Gulbuddin (Afghanistan) Islamic fundamentalists led by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; thought to be deeply involved in narcotics trade.
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TO THE U.S.
EUROPE
NORTHERN IRELAND
MOROCCO
_ TURKEY
_ PAKISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
UZBEKISTAN
LEBANON
U.A.E.
ALGERIA
INDIA
YEMEN
EGYPT LIBYA
TUNISIA
SYRIA
OMAN
JORDAN
SOMALIA
CHECHNYA
TURKMENISTAN
TO CHINA
SAUDI ARABIA
IRAQ
IRAN
RUSSIA
Atlantic Ocean
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
MAIN SOURCES OF HASHISH
1999-2003
MOROCCO 31 pct.
PAKISTAN 18 pct.
AFGHANISTAN 17 pct.
LEBANON 9 pct.
INDIA 9 pct.
IRAN 8 pct.
2005 WORLD OPIUM PRODUCTION (estimate)
Afghanistan 87 pct.
Burma 7 pct.
Rest of the world 6 pct.
AFGHANISTAN OPIUM PRODUCTION
(estimates in metric tons)
5,000
_ 4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
3,108 metric tons
4,950 metric tons
4,475 metric tons
2000 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05
Sources: CIA, State Department, United Nations Office of Drug Control, U.S. News reporting
_ GRAPHIC BY STEPHEN ROUNTREE--USN&WR
With Bay Fang and Soni Sangwan
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