Criminal syndicates are trafficking drugs into Europe through Africa -- and they're using terrorist groups like al Qaeda to do it. Duenas/GettyCocaine, Kidnapping And The Al-Qaeda Cash Squeeze -- The Telegraph
Hit by a global crackdown on their wealthy financiers, Bin Laden's followers have been forced to abandon their Koranic principles to pursue their holy war.
The three al-Qaeda agents assured the Colombians that they would have no problem moving their shipment of European-bound cocaine through the Islamist badlands of the Sahara.
As supporters of the terrorist organisation's North African branch, they would guarantee shipment of the drugs through territory they controlled - so long as they were paid fee of $2,000 per kilo.
Read more ....
My Comment: It is all about the money. Take it away .... and you end up being closed by your creditors.