FOREIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign News and Analysis Since April 2005 -- Formerly China Confidential -- What's Happening in the World
Monday, August 05, 2013
On the Transnational Terrorist-Criminal Connection
Transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups are increasingly intertwined. The criminals, including drug dealers, thieves, and fraudsters, help the terrorists by facilitating the movement of money, weapons, and people across countries and continents.
Nigerian criminal gangs and networks are of special interest to law enforcement agencies and security services in light of Nigeria's Islamist problem.
Foreign Confidential will soon publish an in-depth, investigative report on the transnational terrorist-criminal connection.
Report: Islamists Surgically Implanting Bombs in People, Animals
The global terrorism warning might have been triggered by evidence of an Al Qaeda plot involving undetectable plastic explosives and evil surgeons.
Why is the US Trying to Save the Muslim Brotherhood?
The Obama administration is trying to preserve its alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood at the risk of further antagonizing Egypt's army and secular citizens.
Will Turkey's Military Save the Secular System?
Show Trial Verdict Could Lead to Egyptian Solution
Turkey's Islamist regime is tightening its grip on the nation.
Will the army--traditional guardian of Turkey's secular system--step in to save the nation from clerical fascist rule?
Time will tell.
Assad Sticks to His Guns, Vows to Crush Terrorism
Syrian Dictator Determined to Win War
It seems that predictions of Assad's downfall were premature. The Syrian dictator is unbowed and determined to win the war against Western-, Turkish- and Gulf State-supported Sunni Islamists, including Al Qaeda and its affiliates.
Read more.
Unfortunately, Assad is himself backed by Islamists--of the Shiite persuasion. The new Nazi Germany--nuclear/missile-mad, non-Arab, Islamist Iran--and its Hitlerian Arab proxy, Hezbollah--are Assad's allies.
In short, there are no good guys in the conflict. It's car bombers and cannibals against a ruthless, secular despot and the forces of Iran's atomic ayatollah … with Russia on the Iranian/Syrian side, because Moscow fears the spread of Sunni Islamism in its own territories.
All of which adds up to a Cold War-like nightmare from which nothing good can possibly come.
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