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Narcoterrorism

The funding between terrorist groups and narcotics trafficking is known as narcoterrorism. The term ‘narcoterrorism’ was first used to describe a terror campaign waged by traffickers against anti-narcotics police. Narcoterrorism is understood to mean the attempts of narcotics traffickers to influence the policies of government by the systematic threat or use of violence. The linkage between drug trafficking and terrorism has impacted directly and indirectly on violence and instability at all levels from an individual to international level.
Drug trafficking has become a cause of grave problems that threaten global
security, not only because of the huge profits, but also because this illegal activity almost
always results in significant collateral violence and destroys of human health. The financial profits from illegal drugs have enabled terrorists and guerrilla forces to purchase the arms, munitions, and other military equipment and supplies necessary to carry out insurgencies and terrorist operations. Many terrorist organizations engage in drug trafficking in order to raise funds for their organizations because drug trafficking is a profit business. Typical sources of funding for terrorist groups include: criminal activities such as smuggling and drug trafficking, donations from local and/or foreign supporters, wealthy individuals and organizations, and revenue from legitimate business operations.
One of the major sources of funding for terrorist and organized criminal networks is narcotic trafficking. Terrorist groups provide the criminal groups with access to modern weapons. Some insurgent groups, for example, Shining Path, in Peru and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), has profited from offering protection to criminal groups that cultivated, refined and trafficked drugs. In the past, The Osama Bin Laden network controlled the parts of Afghanistan where heroin is...