Workshop VI: Narcoterrorism

Dear all,

please check out the links as followed.


1. DEA Digging Into Al Qaeda Drug Links

2. Hezbollah, Hamas Raise Money for ‘Terrorist Activities’ From Drug Trade in South America, Congressional Research Service Says

3. Mexican Drug Trafficking
(A great bunch of news inside; please check the first post. For the rest, you may choose for yourself. Also, you are encourage to trace back to the "region" and pick up countries, eg: Columbia, Venezuela, and Afghanista, that are highly involved in the issue "Narcoterrorism" for more data.)

4. UNDOC World Drug Report 2007
Please read the introduction to build up a general idea of where and to what extent the issue is evolving.


Questions

1. What is Narcoterrorism? How is drug traficking related to terrorism?
2. What are the related issues that may be triggered by drug dealing?
Bearing that in mind, how can different committees/ organizations conspire to resolute the problem?
3. Who are the stakeholders? What is the interest of each stakeholder?
What can the government do?
4. How should the problem of Narcoterrorism be solved? From which level shall we start?
Is it better to start regionally? nationally? Or internationally? Why? What are the pros and cons?
5. It is the source of $ that terrorism seeks in drug dealing. Can the financial mechanism
assist in any way? Are there any incentives?