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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Drug Enforcement Administration has paid more than $3.3 million to informants in an investigation that led to the arrest of a man prosecutors called an international arms dealer.

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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
President Evo Morales accused the United States Drug Enforcement Administration of espionage and of financing “criminal groups” trying to undermine his government.

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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Five officials in the attorney general’s elite organized crime unit, receiving as much as $450,000 a month to feed secrets to a major cartel, were arrested.

geposted in Drug Enforcement Administration, Racketeering and Racketeers, Crime and Criminals, Cartels, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Mexico | No Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The suspects were rounded up throughout the U.S. as part of a crackdown on one of Mexico’s largest drug cartels’ routes and distribution network.

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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The Taliban are not the only ones benefiting from the opium trade. Drug-related corruption pervades the Afghan government. A former Bush administration counternarcotics official explains the war within the war.

geposted in Negroponte, John D, McNeill, Dan, Drug Enforcement Administration, Gonzales, Alberto R, Smuggling, Opium, Rumsfeld, Donald H, Hadley, Stephen J, Lute, Douglas E, Patterson, Anne W, Poppies, Karzai, Hamid, Gates, Robert M, Agriculture, United States Armament and Defense, Afghanistan, Armament, Defense and Military Forces, Defense Department, Bush, George W, Drug Abuse and Traffic, International Relations, Rice, Condoleezza, Taliban, Politics and Government | No Comments »
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Haji Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban commander, says he was duped into coming to the U.S. to help authorities fight the Taliban and was arrested for drug trafficking instead.

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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Law enforcement experts wonder if the lessons learned fighting the Sicilian Mafia in Italy and the United States can be applied to the escalating crisis in Mexico.

geposted in Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Organized Crime, Italy, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Calderon, Felipe, Mexico | No Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Not many investigations are as intricate as the Drug Enforcement Administration?s three-year pursuit of two arms dealers, who are being prosecuted in federal court in Manhattan.

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