Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nation & World

Paying for Terror

How jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics--and profits--to finance attacks on targets around the globe

By David E. Kaplan
Posted 11/27/05
Page 10 of 10

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.

[map labels]

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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