Hizbullah using drugs to recruit Arab Israelis

[Herschel]

With the global crackdown on Islamic charity groups that fund terrorist organizations and their proxies, worldwide Islamic terrorist organizations are returning to their roots: drug smuggling.

Hizbullah is using drug smuggling as an increasingly integral tool of recruiting Arab Israeli operatives, according to intelligence sources.

Fully "99 percent of the drug trafficking into Israel is directed by Hizbullah," one security source told The Jerusalem Post.

With the number of cases of Israeli Arabs indicted as operatives for Hizbullah rising, so too is their connection with drugs.

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1076506711565&p=1006688055060

Oh, my.

[plurality]

1. Oh my indeed...

http://www.mideastfacts.com/drug_IDF_leb.html

IDF officers fingered in drug smuggling
By Sharon Gal
Dozens of IDF soldiers and a few officers stationed in southern Lebanon are smuggling drugs into Israel, according to intelligence information obtained from a high-ranking police superintendent.

Chief Superintendent Kobi Bachar, head of the police's drug force in the northern district until a month ago, told Ha'aretz yesterday that the information had been given to highly placed officers in the army, but that they had decided not to act on it for various reasons.

According to the intelligence, most of the soldiers involved are trackers serving in Lebanon, and the soldiers and officers mainly act as couriers, carrying drugs from dealers in Lebanon to dealers in Israel. Police estimate that between one and three tons of heroin is smuggled into Israel each year over the Lebanon border.

The drug activity has increased significantly in recent months and according to Bachar, "The phenomenon is spreading. This is widespread, and it is not unheard of in the army. It's not only trackers who are involved. The circles are widening."

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/08/02/News/News.31730.html

International Ecstasy ring smashed by police
By Itim


JERUSALEM (August 2) - An Ecstasy-smuggling ring has been cracked by the Israel Police, in collaboration with its counterparts in the US and Europe.

Seventeen Israelis are being held in Spain and the US, and more arrests are expected. The ring is believed to have operated for a year.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=7249

How Cookie Crumbled



The rise and fall of drug dealer Jacob “Cookie” Orgad sheds light on the pivotal role Israelis — and Jews — play in the thriving Ecstasy trade


To his mates in the New York prison where he awaits sentencing for a drug-smuggling conviction, the bearded, soft-spoken Israeli, who Customs Department officials say regularly ministers to a small flock of religious Jewish prisoners, is known as "Rabbi Ya’akov."

The rest of the world, however, knows the "rabbi," a former Los Angeles resident, as Jacob "Koki," or "Cookie" Orgad. Until his arrest in April 2000, he was the biggest Ecstasy, or MDMA, trafficker ever to be convicted in this country.

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2. Yup, weekly flights from Afghanistan, no doubt. nt

[dudeness]

3. Oh my..

Fully "99 percent of the drug trafficking into Israel is directed by Hizbullah," one security source told The Jerusalem Post.
..yep gotta trust them "security sources".. Oh my.

[rabidarab2004]

4. Why wouldn't I trust them

If not the police, then who would be collecting statistics on crime?