Taza Gul AlizaiDEA: Drugs-for-Missiles Terror Deal Stopped -- MSNBC
Federal officials have charged several men with planning to use money from sales of heroin on U.S. streets to buy missiles to help arm Hezbollah.
The suspects were allegedly trying to purchase military-grade weapons, like Stinger missiles, with profits from drug sales in the U.S., including in New York.
But DEA agents posed as weapons dealers in the sting operations and arrested the men with the help of Romanian authorities. Two others were arrested in the Maldives.
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My Comment: This is disturbing .... especially if it is true that Hezbollah is looking for hard to get (but sophisticated) weaponry.
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