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Narcoterrorism
Narcoterrorism is a term coined by former President Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Peru in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police. In its original context, the word is used to mean; the attempts of narcotics traffickers to influence the policies of a government or a society through violence and intimidation, and to hinder the enforcement of anti-drug laws by the systematic threat or use of such violence. The term has become a subject of controversy, largely due to its use in discussing violent opposition to the US Government's War on Drugs and is now being increasingly used to label terrorist organizations (like FARC, ELN, Taliban and Hamas etc.), that engage in drug trafficking activity to fund their operations and gain recruits and expertise.

In 2000 the U.S. began funding, continued under the U.S. Bush administration, of Plan Colombia, intending to eradicate drug crops and to act against drug lords accused of engaging in narcoterrorism, including among them the leaders of the marxist FARC and the AUC paramilitary forces. In recent years, the U.S. government has been funding large-scale drug eradication campaigns and supporting Colombian military operations, seeking the extradition of commanders.

One of the best known and documented examples of narcoterrorism is Pablo Escobar’s violence and drug networking within dealings along side the Colombian government. The results of Escobar’s corruption and criminal actions mostly concluded with deaths.

A widely known terrorist orginization, al Qaeda, had been rumored to benefit from narcoterrorism and through drug trafficking, that account is false. The 9/11 Commission Report notes that, "while the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that bin Laden was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking." The organization gains most of its finances through donations, particularly those by "wealthy Saudi individuals".

[http://www.trackingterrorism.org/article/narcoterrorism ·Afghanistan, to fund operations with sales of opium and heroin in the Afghanistan War. Often using IED’s (Improvised Explosive Device) to attack the officials.]

·Colombia and Peru, which have influential right-wing paramilitary "narco-terrorists" and left-wing revolutionary guerrillas.

[http://www.biblio.com/book/narco-terrorism-ehrenfeld-rachel/d/610886765?aid=frg&gclid=CKj_jeeAt74CFW4R7AodUgIAIQ ·Mexico, which has a serious problem with cartels, first centered around Sinaloa and Mexico City and now spreading, in the Mexican Drug War. A recent example of this is the 2011 Monterrey casino attack.[citation needed ] ]

·Pakistan, especially in Waziristan and adjacent regions, related to the war to the west and tribal problems, farmers farm opium