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Antifascist Calling
When Afghan drug kingpin Haji Bashir Noorzai was arrested in New York in 2005, it set off a chain of events that continue to echo today.
A federal jury in Manhattan convicted Noorzai September 22, for his involvement in an international narcotics trafficking conspiracy that sold tens of millions of dollars of heroin on world [...]

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Antifascist Calling…
What do you call a “devout Muslim” who exerts considerable control over South Asia’s heroin, gambling, prostitution and smuggling rackets? Why an intelligence asset, of course!
When Lashkar-e-Taiba (”Army of the Pure”–LET) militants slaughtered nearly 200 people in Mumbai during the November 26 siege in India’s financial capital, one name stood out among a list [...]

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David Pallister and Rob Evans
-US freezes tobacco trader’s assets over allegations
-Raid in Johannesburg linked to BAE arms deal
The US treasury has frozen the American assets of one of Britain’s richest men after accusing him of financially supporting Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe.
Describing him as a “regime crony”, the US accused John Bredenkamp, 68, of providing [...]

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17 minutes ago
Forty-two people including the son of late French president Francois Mitterrand and dozens of businessman, politicians and public figures go on trial Monday over a vast “arms-to-Angola” scandal.

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RAW STORY
Published: Saturday September 13, 2008
The Bush administration is rapidly increasing weapons sales to foreign governments in order to rearm Middle East allies, The New York Times reported.

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Larisa Alexandrovna
A huge expose in NYT about AQ Khan and the nuclear black market:

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By Sharon Weinberger
July 30, 2008 | 11:46:00 AM

If there one thing that’s truly disturbing about the sale of Russian weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s that it demonstrates how parts of the U.S. government have been forced to find ways to evade American law. Specifically, we now have the Pentagon, which is under pressure to [...]

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By Mike Nizza
[Update, 2:59 p.m. | He pleaded not guilty and was released until the trial. A date has not been set.]
If the subject had not already been covered extensively in the pages of The New York Times, Representative Henry Waxman’s question last month could have easily passed for comic relief during another unmercifully drawn-out [...]

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By Sharon Weinberger

Defense Solutions has proposed teaming with the Russian arms-export agency, Rosoboronexport, for several arms deals, including supplying Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan. Rosoboronexport is blacklisted by the U.S. government for allegedly violating the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act.
Former congressman Curt Weldon is helping broker deals between Russian and Ukranian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments as [...]

hat tip ~ Narco News Bulletin
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July 2, 2008 03:07
The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.