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Al-Qaeda cash squeeze
By African Bulletin on March 8, 2010
In a secretly taped meeting in Ghana by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), three al-Qaeda agents from Mali were caught. They are supporters of the terrorist organisation’s North African branch, and were assuring the Colombians that they would have no problem moving their shipment of cocaine through the Islamist badlands of the Sahara. This kind of events shows how “Al-Qaeda is turning to drug smuggling and sharply stepping up kidnapping and extortion to plug the gap in its finances”.