http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1632346.cms Terror groups take opium route to funds <http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif> <javascript:clippopup(1632346);> Pradeep Thakur [ Friday, June 09, 2006 12:41:10 am <http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif> TIMES NEWS NETWORK ] <http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif>
NEW DELHI: Taking a leaf out of the book of fellow jehadis in Afghanistan, terror groups in J&K have diversified into narcotics trade to fund their campaign of death and destruction. Thousands of hectares in the Kashmir valley have been brought under illicit opium cultivation under the patronage of terror groups, who are faced with a fund crunch of sorts since international scrutiny forced the patrons in Pakistan to cut down on lavish funding. On June 1, when a Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) team with help from the Jammu & Kashmir police was engaged in an operation to destroy a part of this crop in five villages of Sopian in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, they came under fire from a band of suspected jehadis. With reinforcements provided by Army soldiers, NCB destroyed illicit poppy over an area of about 1,750 bighas, estimated to be around 2,600 kg and worth at least Rs 6 crore. This was not the first time that NCB has destroyed illicit crop in J&K. In mid-2004, the agency destroyed poppy crop spread over 167 hectares in Anantnag and Pulwama. Pakistan, under US pressure, has frozen the banks accounts and imposed restrictions on fund collection of organisations already banned by the US and the UN and those which feature on their list of terrorist organisations. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
