I'm sure some will attribute this to "right-wingers," or "radical Christian fundamentalists," or the like.
It sure sounds believable to me, though.
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New York Post
July 26, 2005
Coke Fiend Bin Laden
By Dan Mangan
Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with
poison and sell it in the United States, hoping to kill thousands of
Americans one year after the 9/11 attacks, The Post has learned.
The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached
decided it would be bad for their business - and, possibly, for their own
health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug
Enforcement Administration's probe of the aborted transaction. The feds were
told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had never been made
public. The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA's findings in the
matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.
Sources said the feds were told that bin Laden personally met with leaders
of a Colombian drug cartel to in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of tons of
cocaine, saying that he was willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to
finance the deal.
It was not clear where the meeting took place.
Bin Laden hoped that large numbers of Americans dying from poisoned coke
would lead to widespread terror.
"They wanted to kill thousands or people — more than the World Trade
Center," said a source.
Although the drug lords would have reaped millions of dollars in profits by
selling the cocaine to bin Laden, they knew that if his plan succeeded it
might effectively destroy the market for their coke in America for years,
sources said.
But that was only one reason they declined bin Laden's offer.
The other was their fear of retaliation from the U.S. government once its
citizens started to die from the drugs, according to sources.
Despite bin Laden's plan being thwarted, the DEA believes that al Qaeda
continues to this day to traffic in drugs to fund a variety of its
operations — including training, traveling and terror attacks.
In 2002, then-DEA Director Asa Hutchinson said, "The DEA [has] received
multi-source information that Osama bin Laden himself has been involved in
the financing and facilitation of heroin-trafficking activities."
"It is important we recognize that when money goes from the pocket of an
American to buy drugs, it may contribute to the financing of unspeakable
crimes of violence around the world," Hutchinson told Congress that year
when he detailed the narcotics trade connection to al Qaeda and other terror
groups.
In April of this year, Afghan tribal leader Hajji Bashir Noorzai, who was
one of the most wanted drug dealers in the world and previously had been
identified as bin Laden's major heroin supplier, was busted in New York City
on federal criminal charges.
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Personally, I don't give a shit if someone uses coke. As long as he/she isn't my doctor, taxi driver, airline pilot....
Uh, come to think of it, there are a LOT of people I don't want using coke. Oh well, "talk among yourselves."