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† Gang Watchers decided to add this new page to our growing web site just so you'll become more aware of how pandemic the war on drugs is and how massive the cover-ups and conspiracies are. If you click here, you will see for yourself just how many secret governments {PBS} and secret agencies there are in the world. Now, if you think they are all in it for the good of the masses - then you're the one on dope ! And as far as I'm concerned, these agencies would all be out of business ... if they'd all get out of the business - of transporting drugs; {Google Story} the number one business in the world ! Period. Come quickly LORD JESUS !

WAR ON DRUGS or WAR ON RIGHTS : YouTube Special Interview with Terry Reed : Air Force Intelligence

- ( 01-24-08 ) - | Tancredo Demands Pardon of Border Agents amid New Killing |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Border Agent murdered while attempting to stop illegal smugglers : Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today demanded a pardon of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean after recent press reports of another Border Agent, Luis Aguilar, was killed in the line of duty. “Border Patrol Agents risk their lives everyday to prevent illegal aliens, illicit narcotics and terrorists from entering this country,” Tancredo said. “It is time we pardon Ramos and Compean and send a clear message to potential smugglers that our Border Patrol will use any means necessary to prevent illegal border crossings.” Agents Ramos and Compean were sentenced to 11 and 12 years, respectively, for shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks. The smuggler has since been caught smuggling more drugs into the United States. Luis Aguilar, a 32-year-old father of two, was hit by a truck driven by a smuggler as he tried to place spike strips in front of the escaping vehicles. The vehicles made it back into Mexico.
- ( 01-23-08 ) - | Ex-Im Bank stonewalling media on weak, new anti-corruption guidelines |
AMERICA — One of the most important stories I've seen regarding drug cartel corruption of an important American government institution has gone virtually unremarked by the mainstream media except for a single, dogged broadcast journalist in Dallas, WFAA-TV's Byron Harris, who first broke the story last month about Ex-Im Bank loans to phony companies registered to figures connected to Mexican drug cartels. Today Harris reports on the new Ex-Im Bank due diligence guidelines for loans that Grits discussed here, although as previously, no one from the Ex-Im Bank will respond directly to Harris. Unfortunately, as mentioned before, to my mind the new Ex-Im guidelines aren't nearly "diligent" enough - all the key background checks that might reveal whether a loan recipient was connected with a drug cartel are still optional, for example, and are not required to be completed before the Ex-Im Bank gives out new loans.
- ( 01-16-08 ) - | CIA DRUG PLANES : Tip of the Ice Burg |
AMERICA — Two American-registered drug planes busted in Mexico carrying four and 5.5 tons of cocaine are just the "tip of the iceberg" in a blockbuster aviation deal which sold 50 American-registered aircraft to the Sinaloa Cartel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. According to an indictment released over the holidays by Mexico’s Atty. General, Pedro Alfonso Alatorre, already indicted as the cartel’s chief financier, purchased the DC9 (N900SA) airliner, the Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA), and 48 other planes not yet identified for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel with laundered drug money, using a company he controls which owns currency exchanges at major airports in Mexico.
- ( 01-15-08 ) - | Cocaine Boom in Europe : Fuels New Laundering Tactic |
AMERICA — A cocaine boom in Europe and the continent's strong currency have combined to fuel a thriving industry: euro laundering. With the euro approaching $1.50 and soaring demand for cocaine in countries like Spain and Italy, Europe has become a far more lucrative place to do business for Latin American drug cartels than in previous years. To obscure the origins of the funds, and escape government scrutiny in the process, the cartels use a complex system to launder their proceeds -- much of which is landing on U.S. shores.
- ( 01-09-08 ) - | Bush and BCCI to FBI whistleblower bombshell |
UK — This week, the Sunday Times lifted the lid on one of the most important stories of the last quarter-century: how American officials sold nuclear arms technology to illegal proliferators -- including ideological allies of al Qaeda -- in return for bribes and other inducements. This widespread corruption has been protected from exposure by the highest levels of the U.S. government, which has gone to enormous lengths to protect the truth from coming out. The entire planet has been put at grave risk by the greed -- and geopolitical gamesmanship -- that lies behind this criminal enterprise, which actually is even more extensive, and goes back further in time, than the newspaper's remarkable revelations. The Sunday Times story is based on the evidence provided by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who has been subjected to an unprecedented campaign of state-enforced muzzling by the Bush Administration since she first tried to speak out about the corrupt connections between American officials and foreign agents she discovered when reviewing transcripts associated with the 9/11 investigation. As even the leaders of the whitewashing 9/11 Commission themselves now admit, that investigation was deliberately sabotaged by the Bush Administration – in part to cover up the nuclear proliferation network that has directly or indirectly enriched so many in the American elite over the past decades – including the sitting president of the United States, George W. Bush.
- ( 01-09-08 ) - | Noriega Fails Again to Block Extradition |
MIAMI (AP) — Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega on Wednesday failed again to persuade a federal judge to block France from extraditing him to face money-laundering charges. U.S. District Judge Paul Huck said he agreed with another judge's rulings last year that Noriega's status as a prisoner of war was not an impediment to the French extradition request. Huck also ruled that France had provided sufficient assurances that he would be treated in accordance with POW rules under the Geneva Conventions, even if the French do not plan to specifically label Noriega as a POW.
- ( 01-08-08 ) - | The Destabilization of Pakistan and the "Global War on Terrorism" |
AMERICA - by Michel Chossudovsky -- The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto must be understood in a historical context. Since the late 1970s, successive US administrations have contributed to repealing the Rule of Law, destroying Pakistani institutions of civilian and secular government and instating military rule. During the Cold War and its aftermath, the repeal of democracy and the militarization of the Pakistani State have served US foreign policy objectives. Pakistan is a geopolitical hub from which US sponsored military and covert intelligence operations have been launched. Pakistan is part of South Asia, at a strategic crossroads, bordering onto the Middle East, Central Asia and the former Soviet republics and within proximity of China's Western frontier.
- ( 01-01-08 ) - | The Destabilization of Pakistan -- PART I |
AMERICA - by Michel Chossudovsky -- "It has been known for months that the Bush-Cheney administration and its allies have been maneuvering to strengthen their political control of Pakistan, paving the way for the expansion and deepening of the “war on terrorism” across the region. Various American destabilization plans, known for months by officials and analysts, proposed the toppling of Pakistan's military. The assassination of Bhutto appears to have been anticipated. There were even reports of “chatter” among US officials about the possible assassinations of either Pervez Musharraf or Benazir Bhutto, well before the actual attempts took place. (Larry Chin, Global Research, 29 December 2007)
- ( 01-01-08 ) - | A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade |
AMERICA - by William Blum -- From 1947 to 1951, FRANCE : According to Alfred W. McCoy in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, CIA arms, money, and disinformation enabled Corsican criminal syndicates in Marseille to wrestle control of labor unions from the Communist Party. The Corsicans gained political influence and control over the docks — ideal conditions for cementing a long-term partnership with mafia drug distributors, which turned Marseille into the postwar heroin capital of the Western world. Marseille's first heroin laboratories were opened in 1951, only months after the Corsicans took over the waterfront.
- ( 12-30-07 ) - | Construction boom in Panama is built on drug money |
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The shiny skyscrapers that soar above Panama City's coast and loom over the small Central American capital give it a skyline more suited to an Asian powerhouse like Hong Kong or Singapore. While a subprime mortgage crisis batters the United States, construction has been booming in Panama. According to the most ambitious construction plans, Panama was to have been home to nine of Latin America's 10 tallest buildings by the end of the decade. But the lights are off in many of the luxury apartments, new buildings sit empty, and suspicion is growing that Panama's property boom may turn out to be a bubble built by speculators on South American drug money.
- ( 12-27-07 ) - | Drugs tied to $243M bogus loans -- To Drug Cartels |
TEXAS : Dallas - A News 8 investigation has found that a little known government agency may have unwittingly wasted taxpayers money on top of using the funds to support criminal activity. The probe originally revealed that small business loans sponsored by the Export-Import Bank of the United States were made to non-existing companies for equipment that wasn't even real. Now, New 8 has discovered that some of the people who got the Ex-Im Bank loans may have drug connections. The $243 million worth of bad loans were originally made to help trade with Mexico. The loans have been linked to the Juarez drug cartel, which is known for its brutal murders. The cartel killed one dozen people and buried them in a suburban backyard across the border fro El Paso. Another loan was linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel, whose business is smuggling heroin into the United States.
- ( 12-19-07 ) - | Coke Jet that crashed in Mexico : Part of Cowboy Government operation |
LATIN AMERICA — Mexican Officials Fear the Case, if Exposed, Could Jeopardize US Funding for “Plan Mexico”. The Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in the Mexican Yucatan in late September carrying close to four tons of cocaine was part of an operation being carried out by a Department of Homeland Security agency, DEA sources have revealed to Narco News. The operation, codenamed “Mayan Express,” is an ongoing effort spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the sources claim. The information surfaced during a high-level meeting at DEA headquarters in mid-December, DEA sources familiar with the meeting assert. Those sources have requested anonymity out of fear they will be retaliated against by the government for revealing the information.
- ( 12-11-07 ) - | DARK ALLIANCE : Gary Webb's Enduring Legacy |
AMERICA — Three years ago, I walked into my home in Arlington, Virginia, and checked my phone messages. One was from a Los Angeles Times reporter who was looking for a comment from me about Gary Webb’s suicide on the night of Dec. 9, 2004. It was the first I had heard of the news. After I recovered from the shock, I called the reporter back to get more details. I also told him he would have a hard time writing a decent obituary on Webb because the L.A. Times had never acknowledged that Webb was substantially correct in his reporting about the Nicaraguan contras' role in smuggling cocaine into the United States in the 1980s. Though Los Angeles had been hit hard by the “crack epidemic” and the L.A. Times had devoted front-page space to trash Webb’s contra-cocaine reporting in 1996, the newspaper never ran a story detailing the CIA inspector general’s 1998 findings, which confirmed much of what Webb had alleged – and more.
- ( 12-07-07 ) - | Drug dealer to the stars' alleged accomplice in court |
AUSTRALIA — POLICE say a global drug ring imported up to 192kg of cocaine after a string of arrests, including an Aussie fugitive and a man who appeared in a Melbourne court today. The drug smuggling syndicate imported up to 4kg of cocaine every month for up to four years, Australian Federal Police say. Australian Federal Police agents tipped off Dutch police he was in the Netherlands and will seek to extradite him to Victoria to face serious drug charges. He was captured at Amsterdam airport on Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country. His arrest after a long surveillance operation ended a three-year hunt for the man, whose name has been suppressed by Victoria's Supreme Court. {Brit's Cover-Up Again}
- ( 11-28-07 ) - | CIA Plane caught in a Mexican Stand-Off |
MEXICO — At least four men have already paid with their lives in Mexico during the ensuing confusion which followed the crash of the CIA-connected Gulfstream business jet which was carrying more than 4 tons of cocaine as well as an yet-unspecified amount of heroin, in the jungle outside of Merida in Mexico's Yucatan on September 24th of this year. [COMMENT by Brother LUCKY] And now - according to the story - a "Hong Kong-flagged ship" with no registration {yet} is in this stand off. 23 tons of dope and no one knows anything. So ... keep this little string on your finger. As China's government considers the implications of this so-called unregistered ship, and as Mexico becomes even more {Key-Word} destabilized, who's in a hurry to black-male who ? If China wins ... the Brit's win. If America win's ... then Afghanistan wins. Keep that in mind and you will see which "Golden Triangle or Cresent" come out ahead. Just a thought.
- ( 11-23-07 ) - | Chapter 12 - COLONIALISM IN THE MODERN WORLD | WOW !!!
MEXICO — Within the context of the National Security State the CIA has significantly infiltrated the ranks of the media as we began to learn in the late 1960’s. In addition to subsidizing the publications of many books, there are working writers on the CIA payroll, or the payrolls of CIA front groups, as well as media workers who are conduits for information that the agency wishes to be presented to the public. Because of the CIA infiltration of journalism, especially in Third World countries, it is possible for them to conduct worldwide disinformation campaigns. During the initial stages of the anti-Communist hysteria in the United States a secret government was formalized within American democracy. For the first time an elaborate system of security clearances and classified documents was created along with a presidentially appointed National Security Council that was not provided for in the U.S. Constitution. This placed a firewall between the electorate and the activities of the higher reaches of government. This is especially true concerning activities of the U.S. government outside its borders. This has enabled the U. S. Government to conduct activities on behalf of the economic elite throughout the world while clothing these activities in the pieties of "aiding democracy" or "free trade."
- ( 11-15-07 ) - | Banking on Drugs - Another Bank caught laundering drug money |
AMERICA — A money-laundering scheme involving a Mexican exchange house has again put U.S. banks in an uncomfortable position. This time Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ) and Harris Bank are in the hot seat. In September, a U.S. registered Gulfstream II business jet carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine crashed in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A year earlier, a DC-9 aircraft loaded with 5.7 tons of cocaine from Venezuela was seized in Mexico by Mexican soldiers. Both of the planes were purchased through a Mexican exchange house called Casa de Cambio Puebla, and that's turning into a problem for Wachovia, the fourth biggest bank in the United States, and Harris Bank, the Chicago unit of Canada's BMO Financial Group.
- ( 11-12-07 ) - | USA-Mexico Anti-Drug Plan Includes ... ‘Private Contractors’ ??? |
MEXICO — The United States and Mexico recently unveiled a new US$1.4 billion anti-drug aid package that aims to help Mexico fight the drug cartels. Although most commentators have applauded the goals of the program, one troubling aspect of the aid package seems to have escaped public notice. Apparently, the appropriation program calls for the use of private contractors to help Mexico fight drug dealers. The issue of “private contractors” has exploded onto the national agenda recently because of human rights abuses in Iraq committed by Blackwater USA, a private, for hire mercenary army.
- ( 10-29-07 ) - | Bush Fundraiser Linked to CIA Drug Plane |
AMERICA — A MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered links between the ownership of the drug-running Gulfstream (Cocaine Two) and the other American-registered plane busted carrying a multi-ton load of cocaine in Mexico recently, the DC9 (Cocaine One) airliner caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico 18 months ago. Recently-released FAA records from the Gulfstream II business jet that went down in Mexico a month ago with four tons of cocaine reveal that before it was “parked” in the name of a New York real estate developer with ties to the Russian Mob, the plane was owned by a secretive Midwestern media baron and Republican fund-raiser, who had a business partner who, incredibly, owned the other American drug plane, the DC9, recently busted in Mexico. Stephen Adams was in business with Miami attorney Michael Farkas, who founded SkyWay Aircraft, which owned the DC9 busted in Mexico 18 months ago with 5.5 tons of cocaine aboard.
- ( 10-26-07 ) - | Afghanistan cited as evidence of CIA new drug plan |
AMERICA — As an example of CIA actions, Mexican media point to the large increase in the opium trade out of Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. "Plan Mexico" is being launched shortly after a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) connected jet plane crashed outside Cancun, Mexico with 4 tons of cocaine. The plan is being compared to the failed "Plan Columbia" that actually increased the amount of cocaine, heroin and marijuana entering the US from the nation of Columbia.
- ( 10-23-07 ) - | DEA administrator gets wired on Motorola |
AMERICA — The Bush administration and its cronies at the trough are anything but subtle when they feed. On the same day that the White House unveiled its $1.4 billion Plan Mexico, which will provide a Christmas list of training and equipment (including communications gear) to the Mexican government to battle “drug cartels,” the head of the DEA announced she is stepping down. And where is Karen Tandy — heiress to the Tandy/Radio Shack fortune — headed ? To a major communications equipment manufacturer, of course: Motorola. She has accepted a job offer as the senior vice president of the Fortune 100 company’s Global Government Relations and Public Policy Division.
- ( 10-14-07 ) - | CIA “rendition” flights as cover for drug smuggling |
AMERICA — Did the Inspector General discover the Agency’s dirtiest secret ? Anyone who has followed CIA scandals will find no historical parallel to this story. CIA Director Michael Hayden wants to inspect his Inspector General, John L. Helgerson. Helgerson has been looking rather too closely at the CIA’s rendition programs. The Inspector General (or IG) runs the Agency’s “internal affairs” department — in other words, he polices the CIA. Usually, the IG is one of the “old boys,” but ocasionally the gig to someone who plays hardball.
- ( 10-13-07 ) - | Mexican Agents Arrest 25 Feds for Allegedly Guarding Drug Traffickers |
MEXICO CITY — Federal agents detained 25 federal police officers in the northern border state of Tamaulipas on suspicion of providing protection for the Gulf drug cartel, the Public Safety Department announced, one week after soldiers carried out the biggest cocaine seizure in the nation's history there. It was unclear whether the detention Friday of the 22 men and 3 women — all members of the Regional Security force, formerly known as the Federal Highway Police — was somehow related to the record seizure of nearly 12 metric tons of cocaine found packed in a freight container last week.
- ( 10-13-07 ) - | Gangsters in Blue - Caught in the Act |
CHICAGO - A violent gang has recently been taken down in inner-city Chicago. Specifically, the city police recently decided to disband the Special Operations Section, a roaming squadron of over 100 cops which was created to fight inner-city gang crime and drug dealing. Problem is that the narcs themselves ended up running the most tightly organized, heavily armed, corrupt, and powerful racket in the neighborhood. After weeks of worsening revelations about the Chicago Police Department’s elite Special Operations Section, a beleaguered interim superintendent finally pulled the plug Tuesday, disbanding the scandal-plagued unit and sending most of its officers back to more strictly supervised assignments. The recent incidents of police misconduct, which include charges that SOS officers robbed and kidnapped people, and that one accused officer plotted to murder another, have been “disheartening and demoralizing, especially for officers who serve honorably every day,” interim Supt. Dana Starks said Tuesday at a news conference called to announce the abrupt disbanding of SOS.
- ( 10-12-07 ) - | Former FBI Agent framed after exposing CIA Drug Trafficking |
AMERICA - I. Richard M. Taus, declare and state : I am a former Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to the New York Field Office and the Brooklyn-Queens Metropolitan Resident Agency from July 1978 to November 1988. I was assigned to both the Foreign Counter-Intelligence Division and the Criminal Division. During this period of time, my investigations into these matters revealed criminal activities and operations which I reported and documented to my superiors in the FBI, as follows: The involvement of official, agents and operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with organized crime members and drug-trafficking activities. And the participation by members of the CIA who engaged in the looting of the Savings & Loan (Thrift) Industries, financial scams and fraudulent securities transactions.
- ( 10-11-07 ) - | DEA HOUSE OF DEATH SCANDAL involving US DOJ complicity |
MINNESOTA - An immigration judge in the Twin Cities (the same Minnesota community recently traumatized by a deadly bridge collapse) today built a bridge to the truth in the House of Death. The judge found in favor of Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, the U.S. government informant who played a key role in the House of Death carnage. The judge issued twin findings in Ramirez' deportation case that promise to be a major public-relations fiasco for the U.S. and Mexican governments. The judge’s ruling essentially implicates the government of Mexico in the narco-trafficking business and also keeps the spotlight focused on the U.S. government’s role in the House of Death mass murder in Juarez, Mexico.
- ( 10-05-07 ) - | Jet linked to CIA crashes in Yucatan with drug shipment aboard |
HAVANA - Incident takes place at a time when that Mexican peninsula is a theater of war among Cuban-American drug traffickers handling the lucrative business of illegal emigration -- A private jet which crashed in the vicinity of Cancun on September 24 with a cargo of six tons of cocaine and heroin aboard had been utilized by the CIA in recent months for transferring prisoners to and from the U.S. interrogation camp on Guantánamo. The aircraft, a Grumman Gulf Stream II model, with U.S. registration number N987SA, officially belongs to a company in the south of Florida, which bought it just eight days before the presumed accident, the circumstances of which are murky.
- ( 09-30-07 ) - | United States role and the failing drug war |
JAMAICA - The U.S. has maintained that Jamaica must be kept on a watch list of major transit and illicit producer countries of narcotics because it has more than 5,000 hectares of land in ganja production. Jamaican authorities are angry because the report fails to reflect improved anti-narcotics activities and hurts Jamaica's reputation by placing it in the bad company of 20 countries around the world. The greater problem with the report is that it fails to recognise that the U.S.'s role in the drug war is a cause of failure, and the nature of the world system causes all countries to be losing this war.
- ( 09-30-07 ) - | Crime, Terror and the Central Asian Drug Trade |
AFGHAN - As the interim government of Hamid Karzai attempts to assert political control over Afghanistan, it must find a way to incorporate former drug lords into society while ensuring that they break their ties to the lucrative narcotics trade. This is a complicated task given that many individuals involved in the trade have been appointed to official government positions. Unconvinced of future security, many see drugs as the sole guarantor of economic survival. Unfortunately, the interim government is too weak and compromised to reverse the criminal environment that has existed in the country for over two decades.
- ( 09-29-07 ) - | Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade |
AFGHAN - The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions. The proceeds of this lucrative multibllion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan. The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liason with NATO occupation forces and the British military.
- ( 09-17-07 ) - | MONEY LAUNDERING : UnionBanCal's Drug Money Problem |
CALIFORNIA - Union Bank of California, the nation’s 27th biggest bank, said Monday it will pay $31.6 million in penalties and forfeitures to settle government claims that it had been implicated in an elaborate drug money laundering scheme involving Mexican exchange houses known as casas de cambio. The main unit of San Francisco-based UnionBanCal (nyse: UB - news - people ), Union Bank of California will pay $21.6 million to the Department of Justice for failing to stop millions of dollars of suspected drug proceeds from moving through accounts held at the bank by the exchange houses.
- ( 09-15-07 ) - | Afghanistan : The Other Lost War |
AMERICA - The elicit {drug} trade has long been an important profit center for many US and other banks including the giant international money center ones. It's also well-documented that the CIA has been involved in drug-trafficking (directly or indirectly) throughout its half century existence and especially since the 1980s and the Contra wars in Nicaragua. Today the CIA is partnered with the Afghan "warlords" and criminal syndicates in the huge business of trafficking heroin. It guarantees the crime bosses easy access to the lucrative US market and the CIA a large and reliable revenue stream to augment its annual (heretofore secret) budget disclosed by Mary Margaret Graham, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection, to be $44 billion in 2005.
- ( 09-12-07 ) - | Chiquita Fruit Co. Must Pay $25 Million Fine for Giving Money to Drug Cartels |
AMERICA - The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not prosecute ten executives from Chiquita Brands International who were allegedly involved in the company's now-defunct payoff of Colombian terrorists protecting its most profitable banana-growing operation. The government's long-awaited decision was part of a sentencing memo urging U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth to fine Chiquita $25 million and have the company serve five years probation for its illegal deals.
- ( 09-08-07 ) - | Traffickers Infiltrate Military in Colombia |
BOGOTA - "Officers Provided Secret Information On U.S. Navy Ships" -- An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country's largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggling cocaine. The information obtained by the powerful Norte del Valle drug cartel included the secret positioning of U.S. naval vessels and aircraft in the Caribbean early last year, part of a carefully coordinated web designed to stop cocaine from reaching the United States, according to high-ranking Colombian military officials. The cartel is headed by Diego Montoya, who is on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives.
- ( 09-06-07 ) - | Families of Americans lost in Mexico left with questions |
TEXAS (McALLEN) — It was a routine day for labor attorney Mario Perera Riveroll, defending American companies in a civil court across the Rio Grande in a Mexican bordertown. During a break in court hearings in downtown Reynosa on June 27, 2006, Perera told colleagues he would return after copying documents in the case. Perera, a naturalized U.S. citizen, climbed into his red 2005 Mustang, then drove off — and disappeared.
- ( 09-05-07 ) - | Which Drug Cartel kills the most people ??? |
AMERICA - The Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel and the FDA According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and even the Center for Diseases Control's own admission, well over 100,000 people in this country die each year from ? properly ?? administered prescription drugs. This is absolutely shocking! One study has shown that more than two million American hospitalized patients suffered a serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) within a 12-month period and of these, over 100,000 died as a result.
- ( 09-04-07 ) - | Colombia, Israel and rogue mercenaries |
COLUMBIA - Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos has acknowledged that Bogota had quietly hired a group of former Israeli military officers to advise local defense officials on their counter-insurgency tactics against leftist Fuerza Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, the Colombian daily Semana newspaper reported on 10 August ... Outside assistance with Colombian 'counterinsurgency' efforts in the form of Israeli 'expertise' has created dangerous rogue mercenaries and prolonged a bloody conflict ...
- ( 09-04-07 ) - | Stop "harassing" press over drug stories-group |
AFRICA – DAKAR : (Reuters) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira to stop official harassment of journalists reporting on drug trafficking in the West African state. International law enforcement experts say the poor former Portuguese colony is being used by drug cartels as a staging post to smuggle Colombian cocaine to Europe, often with the connivance of high-level local officials. Senior military commanders and government officials deny involvement in the drugs trade, but say the allegations of official complicity are being investigated.
- ( 08-29-07 ) - | Colombia to seek extradition of Israeli who trained paramilitaries |
COLUMBIA – Authorities said Tuesday it would seek the extradition of a former Israel Defense Forces officer convicted of training paramilitaries in the Andean country, who was arrested Monday by Russian police at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Yair Klein, 61, was sentenced in 2001 in absentia to 10 years in jail by a Colombian court for training recruits for paramilitaries in their brutal campaign to counter Latin America's oldest left-wing rebel insurgency.
- ( 08-28-07 ) - | The Politically Correct Apostate : The COREA Connection ? |
AMERICA – "There are sources, who ask not to be named because their lives would be endangered, who claim that the Mossad is holding on to its knowledge as a trump card should Washington increase it's pressure for the Mossad to cease its intelligence activities within the United States." -- {Gideon's Spies, Gordon Thomas, 1999} Does the Israeli Mossad know things about the Bush Family, which we in this country can only find out about through the Internet, if at all? It appears that our mainstream media has standing orders to ignore, as much as possible, the Bush Family's real history. Did you know that grandfather Prescott Bush and his father-in-law, George Walker, had Nazi connections with "Hitler's Angel" Fritz Thyysen, the German corporation I. G. Farben through the US Union Bank? But is this really all the skeletons in the closet ?
- ( 08-27-07 ) - | Afghan Opium Production Sets Record Highs, Says UN Report |
AFGHANISTAN – According to the report production rose 34 percent this year. U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime Director Antonio Maria Costa says the war-torn country now accounts for 93 percent of the world's opium supply, the raw ingredient in heroin. Speaking to reporters in Kabul, he said the greatest increase has been in southern Afghanistan, where the Taleban insurgency is strongest.
- ( 08-26-07 ) - | Bloodstained centre for drug trade |
GUATEMALA – QUESTION : How is it we know how the cartels get the drugs in and where they drop it off and the U.S. Government still can't win this war on drugs ? Guatemala's 36-year civil war, the longest in Latin American history, pitched oppressive military governments, right-wing politicians and militia groups against left-wing insurgents. It reached its murderous peak in the 1970s and early 1980s and claimed the lives of an estimated 200,000 citizens, many from the indigenous Mayan community. The 1996 peace accords between the rebels and the military brought an end to the conflict, but they have not brought peace for Central America's most populous country.
- ( 08-22-07 ) - | The lost war on drugs |
AFGHANISTAN – Poppies were the first thing that British army Capt. Leo Docherty noticed when he arrived in Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province in April 2006. "They were growing right outside the gate of our Forward Operating Base," he told me. Within two weeks of his deployment to the remote town of Sangin, he realized that "poppy is the economic mainstay and everyone is involved right up to the higher echelons of the local government." The rumor was "that we were there to eradicate the poppy," he said. "The Taliban aren't stupid and so they said, 'These guys are here to destroy your livelihood, so let's take up arms against them.' And it's been a downward spiral since then."
- ( 08-09-07 ) - | New US Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan ? |
AFGHANISTAN – We know that opium, maybe second only to terror, is a huge threat to the future of Afghanistan. The efforts by the Afghan people to build institutions of justice and rule of law are threatened not only by the terror, but the drug forces that are both economic, addictive, and, of course, support, in some cases, of terror, not only through money, but through influence and moving people away from the structures of government toward the structures of drug mafias and violence. I think it's important to remember that when we think about this, sometimes there are, I think, confusing notions about how this works and who's involved and what their motivations are, that need to be sorted out clearly. And we need your help in helping to, obviously, explain this to the American people and to others, because the support for these programs are critical. And that support is sometimes, as you know, difficult.
- ( 08-08-07 ) - | "Cocaine One" bust lifts veil on Global Narcotics Cartel |
AMERICA – Florida : A DC9 registered to a company which once used as its address the hanger of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, FL Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was caught in Campeche by the Mexican military April 10th carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S.
- ( 08-08-07 ) - | Bush, Colombia and Narco-Politics |
COLUMBIA – These new allegations about Colombia’s narco-politics have tarnished Uribe’s reputation just as Bush has been showcasing the Harvard- and Oxford-educated politician as a paragon of democratic values and an alternative to the firebrand Chávez, who has used Venezuela’s oil wealth to finance social programs for the poor across the region. Despite the corruption disclosures – and Uribe’s failure to stem Colombian cocaine smuggling to the United States – the Bush administration continues to shower Uribe’s government with trade incentives and billions of dollars in military and development aid. With other regional leaders unwilling to side with the United States against Chávez, Bush may see little alternative but to stay the course with the 55-year-old Uribe and hope Colombia’s corruption doesn’t draw too much attention in the United States or across South America.
- ( 08-02-07 ) - | Controversial tycoon eyes power on U.S. - Mexico border |
TIJUANA, Mexico – A gaming billionaire who wears a crocodile-skin vest, owns a private zoo and is accused of links to drug cartels might win the governorship this weekend of a Mexican state bordering California. Jorge Hank, the father of 19 children who once referred to women as his favorite animals, is running Sunday for governor in Baja California state, one of the main entry points for South American cocaine into the United States.
- ( 07-31-07 ) - | Colombia admits army infiltrated {by drug cartels} |
COLUMBIA - Drug traffickers and guerrillas have infiltrated senior levels of the Colombian armed forces, seriously compromising their work, officials say. Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos said the Farc rebels and the main drugs cartel had bribed officials to get information and so avoid capture. Colombia remains the biggest exporter of cocaine despite billions of dollars in mainly military aid from the US.
- ( 07-28-07 ) - | Al Qaeda is not Islam, but instead a drug cartel |
AFGHANISTAN - 70% of the worlds opium comes from Afghanistan. Yep, we've all seen the never ending video footage of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda training with weapons. "As much as one-third of Afghanistan's GDP comes from growing poppy and illicit drugs including opium and its two derivatives, morphine and heroin, as well as hashish production.[18]" Al-Qaeda is largely funded by a drug trade.
- ( 07-13-07 ) - | Law Enforcement Officers Allegedly on Drug Cartel's Payroll |
WESLACO - They are suppose to be protecting Valley borders, but a NEWSCHANNEL 5 investigation uncovers several members of Valley law enforcement could be working for the drug cartel. We spoke to a self-proclaimed member of the Gulf Cartel. He asked we conceal his identity for his safety and ours, so we will refer to him as "Juan."
- ( 07-12-07 ) - | Drug case could backfire in Mexico |
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderón's biggest bust in his biggest battle – against drug traffickers who have taken over large swaths of territory as they move narcotics to the U.S. – yielded no drugs and no cartel kingpins. When federal police raided a house in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood, they found the largest stash of alleged drug money in the history of the fight, the government said.
- ( 07-08-07 ) - | Pledge to reduce Afghan Poppys -- Another Pipedream |
NEW YORK — Just a little over two years ago, at a White House press conference on May 23, 2005, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said his country’s poppy crop was shrinking and, “if this trend continues, we’ll have no poppies, hopefully, in Afghanistan in another five or six years.” “That’s a promise we have given to the world and to the Afghan people,” Karzai added, “and that’s a promise that we will deliver on. Hold us accountable on that.” President Bush chimed in that President Karzai was “very forthcoming” about the desire to eradicate the poppy, the raw ingredient of heroin.
- ( 06-27-07 ) - | CIA tried to get mafia to kill Castro |
WASH D.C. — The CIA has declassified nearly 700 pages of top secret records, known in the spy agency as the 'family jewels'. They record some of CIA's illegal activities from the 1950s to the 1970s, including overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying and kidnapping. The documents reveal the agency's efforts to persuade Johnny Roselli, believed to be a mobster, to help plot the assassination of Mr Castro.
- ( 05-31-07 ) - | Nuclear Attack and Invasion of United States |
AMERICA — This may be a very deadly year for Americans living in the United States. According to Hal Lindsey of WorldNetDaily.com, Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, has threatened to unleash an army of operatives already inside the United States, if the U.S. attacks Iran. In other words, mass murder by armed gangs already in U.S. cities.
- ( 05-27-07 ) - | Drug-cartel mole led a chilling double life at the House of Death |
WASHINGTON — The code phrase was "carne asada": a barbecue. When word went out that one was going to be held at the two-story residence in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, it meant that one of Mexico's powerful drug cartels planned to kill a perceived double-crosser or a rival operative. The U.S. government had an informant in the House of Death on Parsioneros Street, where at least a dozen people were tortured, executed and buried.
- ( 05-26-07 ) - | Colombian Drug Assassins Operate in Mexico |
MEXICO CITY – The presence of Colombian drug assassins in Mexico to train their peers in this country was confirmed on Saturday by the newspaper El Universal, which quoted intelligence sources. Reports from the United States and Colombia say that those individuals' work consists of recruiting and training new "gunmen" for the drug cartels.
- ( 05-25-07 ) - | Violence shuts paper in Mexico |
MEXICO CITY – After two recent grenade attacks blamed on drug cartels and ongoing threats against its 250 employees, the daily Cambio Sonora became the first newspaper in Mexico to close its doors because of the escalating violence and the government's failure to protect journalists, its owner said in a message to readers Friday.
- ( 05-19-07 ) - | Venezuela to finance Danny Glover films |
Venezuela's Congress says it has approved financing for two films by actor Danny Glover, a close supporter of President Hugo Chavez. The lawmaking body, which is closely allied with Chavez, said in a statement on its website Thursday that it approved $20 million for two Glover productions.
- ( 04-13-07 ) - | Border Patrol agents' case, House of Death go to the heart of Justice scandal |
It seems the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, overseen by Johnny Sutton from his throne in San Antonio, has a PR problem when it comes to dealing with drug smugglers. In the high-profile case of the two Border Patrol agents in Texas who are now serving long prison terms for shooting a drug smuggler in the rear end, conservative media outlets are proclaiming that Sutton’s office showed special favor to the smuggler in order to ruin the lives of the agents.
- ( 04-03-07 ) - | The SECRET HISTORY of Pharmaceutical Companies creating streets drugs |
Most consumers think that street drugs are in an entirely different class than prescription drugs, and they believe that pharmaceutical companies would never manufacture or sell street drugs. But guess what? As you'll read here, drug companies actually invented many of the street drugs now considered to be the most devastating, including heroin and meth ("ice"). Here are seven facts you probably never knew about the connection between street drugs and pharmaceutical companies:
- ( 08-21-06 ) - | CIA Involved in Coup Against Venezuelan President Chavez |
On April 12, 2002, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer stated: "Let me share with you the administration's thoughts about what's taking place in Venezuela. It remains a somewhat fluid situation. But yesterday's events in Venezuela resulted in a change in the government and the assumption of a transitional authority until new elections can be held".

- ( 05-19-06 ) - | {British} - MI6 Are The Lords of the Global Drug Trade |
It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme. As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile. It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years (see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert's 'From the wilderness' website for proof). The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was created by British intelligence in 1947. The CIA today is still loyal to the international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite aristocratic families like the Rothschilds and the Windsor's. Since it was first started, MI6 has always brought drugs into Britain. They do not bring 'some' of the drugs into Britain but I would estimate MI6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in.

- ( 04-25-06 ) - | We are in Afghanistan for the Drugs ... nothing else |
On April 24 an Antonov AN-32 Russian-built passenger/cargo plane crashed at Bost airport in Lashkar Gah, the capital of southern Helmand province in Afghanistan. Two of the four Ukrainian crew, including the pilot, were killed. Yet, miraculously, all thirteen passengers, eleven Americans and two whose nationalities were withheld, survived the crash. Three Afghans on the ground were killed, including two young girls, two and three years old) and another five were missing. Helmand is known as a center for Taliban activity, bumper heroin production, and links to Afghanistan's American viceroy Hamid Karzai (Karzai's brother owns a restaurant in Baltimore called "Helmand').
- ( 04-01-06 ) - | Countering the global problem of corruption |
Every year, over US$ 1 trillion is paid in bribes around the world, enriching the corrupt and robbing generations of a future. Corruption is a global phenomenon that causes poverty, obstructs development and drives away investment. It also debilitates the judicial and political systems that should be working for the public good. Not surprisingly, as the rule of law is weakened and the voice of the people remains unheard, citizens' trust in government officials and national institutions dwindles.
- ( 02-22-06 ) - | Documents Shed More Light on Alleged DEA Corruption in Colombia |
Names of Two of the Whistleblowers in the “Kent Memo” Are Revealed; DEA’s Former Bogotá Chief May Be Involved in Cover-Up. The revelations of alleged corruption in the Bogotá, Colombia, office of the Drug Enforcement Administration that surfaced last month in a memo drafted by a U.S. government attorney have been illuminated by yet another memo obtained by Narco News.
- ( 08-16-05 ) - | SECRET BORDER WARS - Protecting government drug cartels ? |
ARIZONA - Mexican drug commando organization los Zetas has been carrying out kidnappings of American citizens and politically motivated assassinations which have stretched from the border town of Nuevo Laredo through to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio all the way to Nashville, Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga.
- ( 04-28-01 ) - | The Japanese Mafia [YAKUSA] in the United States |
CHICAGO - They own half of the skyscrapers built in the 1980s downtown Chicago. They are major owners of one of America's largest banks and its holding company. They are unpublicized kingpins in dope trafficking in America. Banks in Japan do not dare foreclose on tens of billions of dollars of certain mortgaged properties owned by them. They get hush money by threatening to disrupt, with scandals, business meetings in Japan. For many years, they have been instrumental in installing the topmost officials of the Japanese government and some in America as well. They are the collectors and enforcers for gambling and prostitution on the West Coast of the United States. In the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere, they operate covert firms, propertaries, for the American CIA.
- ( 06-08-00 ) - | CIA Admits Tolerating Contra- Cocaine Trafficking in 1980s |
WASH.D.C. - In secret congressional testimony, senior CIA officials admitted that the spy agency turned a blind eye to evidence of cocaine trafficking by U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels in the 1980s and generally did not treat drug smuggling through Central America as a high priority during the Reagan administration. “In the end the objective of unseating the Sandinistas appears to have taken precedence over dealing properly with potentially serious allegations against those with whom the agency was working,” CIA Inspector General Britt Snider said in classified testimony on May 25, 1999. He conceded that the CIA did not treat the drug allegations in “a consistent, reasoned or justifiable manner.”
- ( 01-20-00 ) - | Reputed Cocaine Bank Money Laundy Wisard for Bush Family Arrested |
CHICAGO - The reputed cocaine bank money laundry wizard for former President George Herbert Walker Bush and two of his sons has been arrested in Chicago. The matter is tied as well reportedly to corrupt top IRS Officials, Chicago Region Office fingered by our work. Giorgio Pelossi, a prominent Swiss accountant, was arrested January 20, 2000, at O'Hare International Airport, after officials of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS,found he was wanted on an international arrest warrant issued in Milan, Italy, about a year previous. Pelossi, 61, was somehow actually traveling under his own name.
- ( 10-15-98 ) - | THE CIA'S DRUG CONFESSION |
WASH.D.C. - Cocaine traffickers and money-launderers swarmed through the Nicaraguan contra movement in the 1980s to a far greater extent than was ever known, according to a report by the CIA's inspector general. One contra trafficker claimed Ronald Reagan's National Security Council cleared his work. The NSC's favorite covert airline also was under suspicion for drug connections, the report stated. In an historic document released on Oct. 8 -- and nearly ignored by the major news media -- CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz confirmed long-standing allegations of cocaine trafficking by contra forces. Hitz identified more than 50 contras and contra-related entities implicated in the drug trade.
- ( 04-27-98 ) - | RETIRED DEA : Testfies to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
WASH D.C. - For several years, I fought in the trenches of the front lines of Reagan's "Drug War", trying to stamp out what I considered American's greatest foreign threat. But, when I was posted, in Central and South America from 1984 through 1990, I knew we were playing the "Drug War Follies." While our government shouted "Just Say No !", entire Central and South American nations fell into what are now known as, "Cocaine democracies." While with the DEA, I was able to keep journals of my assignments in Central and South America.
- ( 08-18-96 ) - | DARK ALLIANCE - The Story Behind the Crack Explosion |
SAN DIEGO - U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff postponed the sentencing of former Los Angeles cocaine king ''Freeway'' Rick Ross on Friday and agreed to allow Ross' attorney to seek classified government documents relating to the potential involvement of CIA operatives in selling cocaine in black neighborhoods during the 1980s.
- ( 04-01-88 ) - | MEDIA CENSOR CIA TIES WITH MEDELLIN DRUG CARTEL |
WASH.D.C. - A key money-launderer for the Medellin cocaine cartel told Congress in February that he worked with the Central Intelligence Agency, but this information was not reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the three major networks, even though all covered the hearings. In testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations, Ramon Milian Rodriguez acknowledged that he laundered more than $3 million for the CIA after his indictment on drug charges in 1983. New York Times correspondent Elaine Sciolino failed to mention this in her coverage of Rodriguez's testimony, which was broadcast live on CNN (2-11-88).

- ( 05-10-07 ) - | BLOG | - CIA Drug On-Line Blog |
This is a daily blog that is open to the public. In it you will read a lot about our governments involvement in the drug running business and how the goverment covers most of this up. Enjoy ... Brother LUCKY.
- ( 05-01-07 ) - | NEWS | - The Bogotá Connection |
Narco News Investigates DEA Corruption and Cover-Up in Colombia. This web page is also linked to additional stories that are up-dated on a regular basis.
- ( 05-01-07 ) - | NEWS | - From the Wilderness Publications |
This news publicantion tracts many of the cover-ups with drug agencies both home and abroad.