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ISIS Combines Drug Smuggling w/Terror Attack on Israel
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 23, 2014 @ 10:15 am In The Point | 7 Comments
The courageous warrior-rapists of the Islamic State are ready, willing and able to make war on the Zionist Entity. So long as it’s within the course of their drug smuggling.
The IDF has concluded that Wednesday’s attack on two soldiers at the Egyptian border involved a drug smuggling attempt and “was not related to terror.”
“An IDF inquiry suggests the cross-border attack on patrol was a violent drug smuggling attempt, foiled by Caracal Battalion Company Commanders,” military spokesmen said. ”The perpetrators opened fire from three locations including from a car driving along the border. From the attack the Company Commander, Captain Or Ben-Yehuda and another soldier were wounded. IDF responded and killed at least three of the attackers. We are continuing to review the circumstances of the incident.”
The Egyptian version is totally different. Egyptians security forces directly blamed the attack on the Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Beyt al-Maqdis (ABM) terrorist group.
So which version is correct?
Islamic terrorist groups, especially local affiliates, finance their operations through drug smuggling, kidnapping and the usual menu of criminal activities.
Ansar Beyt al-Maqdis is linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS, it acts like a Jihadist group, but it’s also typical of Jihadist “water empire” attempts to monopolize drug and cigarette smuggling routes. That’s somewhat more common in Africa.
It’s part of a chain that begins with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood and its jihadi supporters are the latest terrorists to grow and cultivate illegal drugs in the hills of Sinai, in order to sell them and fund their terrorism campaign with the proceeds—not unlike Afghanistan’s Taliban earlier.
At which point it becomes hard to distinguish drug activities from terror activities because they are one and the same. So you have Jihadists killing “Israeli agents” who turn out to be rival drug traffickers and terrorist attacks against Israel that are actually drug smuggling efforts.
Since the Jihadists routinely recruit from the criminal element, as they did in Iraq, the difference is that they’re drug dealers with an ideology.
Even the camels are part of the explosive security situation in the Sinai. A herd was seen walking alone in the desert, laden with heavy bags. A local Bedouin guide explained to The Media Line: “The camels are carrying ‘goods’ (drugs) and no one can stop them. There will be a war if these camels don’t arrive to their destination on time.”
And so it goes.
Meanwhile the Jihadists play the “Promotion of Virtue” game by executing rival drug smugglers to “protect” the Sinai Bedouins.
Israel appears to be more willing to highlight the drug factor, it has enough terror issues already, while Egypt doesn’t want to talk about drug smuggling, but wants to talk about terrorism.
This whole mess has more than a little resemblance to what is going on in America’s southern border, right down to the human trafficking.
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