Drug use by insurgents and terrorists

[davidbfpo]

Thread re-opened as this BBC News item is different and intriguing:

The UN has warned of a rise in trafficking of the synthetic opioid tramadol across West Africa, as one official revealed it is being found in the pockets of suicide bombers.....The opioid is known to be popular with Islamist militants Boko Haram.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-42326253

Moderator at work

Two small threads were merged after opening and the title changed from: Drug Intoxicated Irregular Fighters and Drug Trafficking and Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups, to 'Drug use by insurgents and terrorists'.

[AdamG]

The Islamist militant group Hezbollah exploded into a major cocaine trafficker for the United States over the past decade — and it happened under former President Barack Obama's watch to help score a nuclear deal with Iran, a report revealed Monday.
Project Cassandra, a campaign launched by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008, found that the Iran-backed military and political organization collected $1 billion a year from money laundering, criminal activities, and drug and weapons trade, according to Politico. Over the following eight years, the agency found that Hezbollah was involved in cocaine shipments from Latin America to West Africa, as well as through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hezbollah...001923525.html