by Jo | July 26th, 2005
New York Post Online Edition: news
Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States, hoping to kill thousands of Americans one year after the 9/11 attacks, The Post has learned.
The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached decided it would be bad for their business - and, possibly, for their own health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s probe of the aborted transaction. The feds were told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had never been made public. The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA’s findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.
Sources said the feds were told that bin Laden personally met with leaders of a Colombian drug cartel to in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of tons of cocaine, saying that he was willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to finance the deal.
And the problem with that would have been …. what? Sorry if it sounds cold folks, but drug users are sucking the life out of this country in my opinion.
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July 27th, 2005 at 5:31 am
I agree that drug users are a drag on our society, but this could have had a profound impact on us. It does show that those drug lords are pretty damn smart though….allow poisoned cocaine into the system and in the panic that follows, no one will touch the stuff and your business dies out.
Then again, why did the US only find out about this “earlier this year”?
July 27th, 2005 at 5:57 am
But you said what I was thinking … “allow poisoned cocaine into the system and in the panic that follows, no one will touch the stuff, and your business dies out”. Maybe if people had started dying in mass, it would have forced users to get clean. Sick ass way to have had to happen to them yeah, but sometimes a sledge hammer is necessary where a regular one wasn’t working.