U.S. Charges 4 in Drugs-Weapons Plot

Nov 6, 3:04 PM (ET)

By CURT ANDERSON

(AP) Attorney General John Ashcroft, right, accompanied by U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby, left, and FBI...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. agents arrested four people in a drugs-for-arms investigation, charging them with plotting to deliver $25 million worth of weapons to a Colombian terrorist group, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday.

It is the second such plot U.S. officials said they uncovered in recent weeks. In September, four men were arrested in Hong Kong on charges of attempting to sell heroin and hashish to finance the purchase of Stinger missiles for the al-Qaida terror network.
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