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Terrorism and Organized Crime in Southeastern Europe

 
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:24 pm    Post subject: Terrorism and Organized Crime in Southeastern Europe Reply with quote
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On behalf of Darko Trifunovic, I am posting his latest paper, "Terrorism and Organized Crime in South-eastern Europe: The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sandzak, Kosovo and Metohija."  An excerpt:
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While terrorists and criminal syndicates have different motivations, they both seek financial gain - only terrorists see it as a source of funding their ideological pursuits. As a result, terrorist networks in cooperation with organized crime syndicates generate significant sums of money. Both parties profit from cooperation. Terrorists provide drug supplies, weapons and contacts to drug-makers and smugglers worldwide. They also provide safe havens for organized crime syndicates, because they often control large territories where there is no rule of law. On the other hand, the terrorists can use smuggling routes and illicit trade goods. Both groups gather and exchange intelligence on corrupt state officials in all branches of government.

Islamic fundamentalists, including Al-Qaeda members, realize profits from drug trade in two ways. One is by taking a percentage from the local criminal syndicates, and the other is taking a portion of illicit substances transported towards Western Europe. Profits from those drug sales are used by the terrorists to purchase arms and offer bribes, but increasingly often as well for hiring professional PR and lobbying firms to come up with political justifications of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.

Recent discoveries in BH indicate that the trend of terrorist organizations funding themselves from drug sales is on the rise, due to a series of factors:

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    Financial scrutiny and closing of so-called "humanitarian" organizations that were terror fronts;

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    Greater pressure on state sponsors of terrorism, resulting in their inability to funnel money to terrorists openly;

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    Increase in supply of heroin coming from Afghanistan;

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    Connections between Islamic fundamentalists and organized crime syndicates



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