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Crakeur
Who knows what kind of info this guy has or has given up and who knows how many other leads or arrests will be made as a result of his talking.
Afridi admitted that he tried to sell five tons of hashish and a half-ton of heroin to undercover U.S. law enforcement officials in 2002 in exchange for cash and four shoulder-fired Stinger missiles, which he and the other defendants intended to sell to members of the Taliban.
My friend is in jail right now serving a 3 year sentence for just having stuff on him
How does this have "Shades of Iran-Contra"?
US Attorney General Edwin Meese on November 25 admitted that profits from weapons sales to Iran were made available to assist the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Faced with undeniable evidence of his involvement in the scandal, Reagan expressed regret regarding the situation on national television on March 4, 1987. In his speech, Reagan stated that his previous assertions that the US did not trade arms for hostages were incorrect.
Contra-drug links
Sen. John Kerry's 1988 U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra-drug links concluded that "senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding problems."
In August of 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance", a 20,000 word, three-part investigative series which alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had sold and distributed crack coc aine in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and that drug profits were used to fund the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras.
How does this have "Shades of Iran-Contra"?
I know for a fact that there were drugs involved in the Iran-Contra affair.
I am so sick of all these lies!