Washington, DC, Dec. 6 (UPI) – A U.S. lawmaker who visited Afghanistan says Osama bin Laden uses cash from heroin sales to pay bodyguards and buy off Pakistani war lords.
Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, R-Ill., said bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror organization is reaping $28 million a year in illicit heroin sales, the Washington Times reported Monday.
Bin Laden needs that money to fund his travels between Afghanistan’s eastern mountains and Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal areas because of initiatives after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States have cut him off from his family fortune and donations from Islamic charities.
“We now know al-Qaida’s dominant source of funding is the illegal sale of narcotics,” said Kirk, a member of the House Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee.
The congressman made an extensive fact-finding trip to Afghanistan last January, where he met with military-intelligence officials.
source: http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041206-030425-6900r.htm
What other excuses are these morons going to come up with? if they know how he lives and he DOES sell heroin for living then destroy his source