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42. “Mumbai Terror Suspect David Headley Was ‘Rogue US Secret Agent,’” Times (London), December 17, 2009, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6960182.ece. Cf. National Post (Canada), December 17, 2009.

43. E.g., Washington Post, December 3, 2008: “In a speech Tuesday [December 2], U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said U.S. intelligence believes the group that attacked trains in Mumbai in 2006 is the same one that carried out last week’s strike. Although he did not name the group, India has attributed the train bombing to Lashkar, and McConnell’s remarks appeared to be a corroboration of Indian findings that Lashkar is once again to blame.”

44. James Mills, Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace (New York: Dell, 1986), 789. Mills also quotes General Tuan as saying that the Thai Border Patrol Police (BPP) “were totally corrupt and responsible for transportation of narcotics.” Mills comments, “This was of some interest, since the BPP, a CIA creation, was known to be controlled by SRF, the Bangkok CIA station” (Mills, Underground Empire, 780). For details on the CIA–BPP relationship in the 1980s, see Douglas Valentine’s account (from DEA sources) (The Strength of the Pack: The People, Politics and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DEA [Springfield, OR: TrineDay, 2009], 254–55.

45. R. T. Naylor, Hot Money and the Politics of Debt (New York: Linden/Simon and Schuster, 1987), 267.

46. Peters, Seeds of Terror, 165, emphasis added, citing interview with Robert Charles, May 23, 2007.

47. U.S. Congress, Senate, Minority staff report for Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing on Private Banking and Money Laundering: A Case Study of Opportunities and Vulnerabilities, November 9, 1999, http://hsgac.senate

.gov/110999_report.htm.

48. In 1998 Zardari was tried in a Pakistani court on charges of drug trafficking, but he was acquitted in 2008 (Dawn, May 20, 2008, http://www.dawn.com/2008/05/20/top8.htm).

49. U.S. Congress, Senate, Minority staff report for Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing on Private Banking and Money Laundering: A Case Study of Opportunities and Vulnerabilities, November 9, 1999, http://hsgac.senate

.gov/110999_report.htm.

50. Tom Burghardt, “Organized Crime, Intelligence and Terror: The D-Company’s Role in the Mumbai Attacks,” Global Research, December 13, 2008, http://www

.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11385.

51. Pepe Escobar, “The Secrets of Obama’s Surge,” Asia Times Online, April 2, 2009, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD02Df03.html.

52. Aftab Maken, “TAPI Gas Pipeline Finalized,” The News [Pakistan], April 25, 2008, http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=14300.

53. “Progress on TAPI Pipeline in Doubt,” UPI, June 18, 2008, http://www

.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/06/18/Progress-on-TAPI-pipeline-in-doubt/UPI-29261245335324/. Cf. The Hindu, October 18, 2008, http://www.hindu

.com/2008/10/18/stories/2008101859541000.htm; Eurasianet, March 26, 2009, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/news/articles/eav032609c.shtml.

54. Bruce Pannier, “What Are The Prospects for Iran-Pakistan ‘Pipeline of Peace’?” Radio Free Europe, May 25, 2009, http://www.rferl.org/content/What_Are_The

_Prospects_For_IranPakistan_Pipeline_Of_Peace/1739236.html.

55. As Ahmed Rashid quotes in Taliban, “Peace can bring a pipeline, but a pipeline cannot bring peace” (Ahmed Rashid, Taliban [New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001], 169).

56. Peters, Seeds of Terror, 227–28. In fact, the so-called Senlis proposal to buy the crop envisages the creation of new markets in Third World countries that cannot presently afford opiates for medical purposes.

57. Glenny, McMafia, 226–27.

58. A vivid memory from my six months in Washington is a congressman thumping his desk on hearing the word “legalization” and spluttering, “I will not have that word spoken in this committee.” Subsequently I learned that his law firm in New York represented, I am sure lucratively, Louis Cirillo, who by 1970 was said to be “responsible for roughly twenty percent of the heroin consumed in America” (Valentine, The Strength of the Pack, 141).

59. “[The U.S. missile attacks] have caused sadness; but the mujahideen network is strengthened by it, not weakened by it. The blood of martyrs will create more martyrs. Because of these attacks, the number of mujahideen brothers has increased, not decreased. The U.S., the enemy, had planned to besiege the Taliban in Afghanistan and terminate the Islamic movement of the Taliban; but after that the mujahideen emerged from this side [in Pakistan]; they could not finish them off. Whenever there is an attack here [in Waziristan], the number of mujahideen swells.” (Mullah Nazeer Ahmad, the emir of the Taliban Mujahideen in Pakistan’s tribal district of South Waziristan, February 2009 interview, reprinted in Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch No. 2392, June 10, 2009, http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi

?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP239209).

60. Laura Kasinof, “A New Base? Al Qaeda Rises in Yemen,” Christian Science Monitor, June 20, 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7880681&page=1. Erich Schmitt and David E. Sanger, “Some in Qaeda Leave Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen,” New York Times, June 11, 2009.

61. New York Times, June 2, 2009.

62. New York Times, November 9, 2009.

63. “While the bombers may have been inspired by Bin Laden, a two-year investigation into the attacks has found no evidence that al-Qa’ida helped plan, finance or carry out the bombings, or even knew about them in advance” (Independent [London], November 7, 2006); cf. James J. F. Forest, ed., Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007), 439: “Trading in hashish and ecstasy was critical to the operation and paid for cars, safe houses, and explosives.”

64. Peter Dale Scott, “‘Continuity of Government’ Planning: War, Terror, and the Supplanting of the U.S. Constitution,” The Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, May 2010, http://japanfocus.org/_Peter_Dale-Scott/3362; Peter Dale Scott, “To All Readers: Help Force Congress to Observe the Law on National Emergencies!!!” (with Dan Hamburg), March 24, 2009, http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090324183053848#r7.

65. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press, 2003), 16, 191.

66. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 93, 431. After the final American withdrawal in 1975, Laotian production continued briefly to rise, thanks to the organizational efforts of Khun Sa, a drug trafficker whom Thailand was relying on as protection against the communists in Burma and Vientiane (McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 428–31).

67. Peter Dale Scott, “Honduras, the Contra Support Networks, and Cocaine: How the U.S. Government Has Augmented America’s Drug Crisis,” in War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U. S. Narcotic Policy, ed. Alfred W. McCoy and Alan A. Block (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992),