Newsgroup: it.politica.pds
Titolo: La droga equivale al terrorismo islamico

www.telegraph.co.uk
 
Saturday 9 August 2003     
Cannabis profits 'funding terrorism' 
(Filed: 09/08/2003) 
Morocco's £2 billion hashish trade is under threat in the wake of 
suicide bomb attacks. Isambard Wilkinson reports from Ketama 
In the green fields around the whitewashed town of Chaouen, sickles 
glinted in the thin morning light as farm workers cut and stacked 
sheaves of cannabis, reaping this year's bumper harvest.
In the Rif mountains of Morocco, kif - the word for cannabis - 
covers the valleys and hillsides in profusion.
The illicit crop is Morocco's biggest foreign currency earner and, 
according to EU estimates, is worth £2 billion a year, making the 
country the world's largest hashish exporter.
For a long time the Moroccan authorities have turned a blind eye to 
the smuggling trade that accompanies cannabis cultivation. The 
impoverished region has a fiercely independent character and its 
economy depends on the cannabis trade.
But now, like much else in Morocco since May 16 when Islamic 
suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people in Casablanca, all that is 
about to change.
Reports have been circulating among Moroccan officials and Western 
diplomats that some of the profits from the Rif's cannabis have 
found their way to fund Islamic terrorism.
One Western diplomatic source said: "We have heard some evidence 
that perhaps terrorist cells that were based in Tangier were mixed 
up in the drug smuggling industry. It is of great concern and 
efforts are now being made to substantiate those claims."
After the attacks, King Mohammed VI announced that Morocco's 
"period of leniency" towards Islamic fundamentalists was over.
More than 700 Islamist terrorist suspects have been rounded up and 
the king has given warning that no Islamist or regional political 
parties would be tolerated.
"The situation in the Rif is now under review," said a senior 
Moroccan court official.
Pascual Moreno, the director of an EU anti-drugs programme in the 
area said that action must be taken soon. Mr Moreno, a Spanish 
agronomist, said: "They have created a society of smugglers not 
wealth."
He added: "In the future, if they do not sort out this problem they 
face the likelihood of separatism growing in the Rif and a growth of 
Islamic terrorism more generally. It is a potentially explosive 
area."
The problem is not new. After independence from France in 1962, the 
king's father, Hassan II, faced an uprising in the area and 
personally led his armies into battle.
The problem remains immense. Of the region's five million 
inhabitants, one million people depend on cannabis for a living. The 
scale of Morocco's kif cultivation is far higher than officials are 
willing to admit.
Mr Moreno, whose stint trying to encourage farmers in the region to 
adopt alternative forms of agriculture is soon to end, has angered 
both Rabat and Brussels with his assessment. He said that the kif is 
tumbling down the mountain far from its traditional area, with the 
harvest doubling every three years.
He estimated that 600,000 acres are now under kif cultivation, 
three times more than Morocco's estimates.
Mr Moreno, who has worked in Morocco for 25 years, said the EU's 
£750,000 pilot project was a failure.
He said: "Give them goats to produce cheese? Really? You cannot 
persuade them to earn 10 to 40 times less."
He added: "These projects are made to please European public 
opinion. It is badly conceived. They think it is an agricultural 
problem. It is not. It is a question how much money farmers will 
gain."
To take on the cannabis growers the Moroccan authorities will have 
to tackle an intricate web of mafias based in the mountain redoubt 
of Ketama, in the heartlands of the "Green Gold". 
On the winding 60-mile road from Chaouen to Ketama, hawkers 
sporadically leap out from the shade of pine trees brandishing slabs 
of hashish, much of which is mixed with goat excrement.
The spindly crop is grown by the roadside, thinly veiled by a row 
or two of maize. Along this route is smuggled about 70 per cent of 
Europe's hashish according to the World Customs Association.
In Ketama, dirty concrete block houses form the backdrop of a wild 
west frontier town. Buxom saloon girls totter along filthy roads on 
high heels, and the scions of local smuggling families listen to 
country and western music in hotel bars.
The smugglers who come to buy are involved not just in moving 
blocks of hashish across the Strait of Gibraltar but also in 
organising the big business of smuggling illegal immigrants across 
the water.
One Moroccan expert on kif cultivation is sceptical that much 
change can be achieved, pointing out that growing the crop is legal 
in the region but transporting it is not.
He said: "They just pay off the police at the checkpoints. It is 
powerful people who move at the highest level who control the 
smuggling. How come the growers are still poor? There is no will to 
stop it. The land is being destroyed so they just keep spreading out 
in lower areas."
He added: "Some of the smallholders are fed up they have to buy the 
seeds in the first place and they face the risk of being shopped to 
the police if things go wrong."
In Tleta Ketama, five miles away, the police commissioner ordered 
an escort to drive me out of his province, declaring: "There is no 
problem here. No drug mafias."
The window behind him gave out on to a yellow and blue mosque, 
surrounded by terraced fields of green cannabis.
Another officer looked out at the scene. "Ah, nature!" he said.
 
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Ecco i veri colori di un paese, il Marocco, di cui si pretende
l'integrazione nell'Unione Europea e che e' origine del maggior numero
di immigrati: il Marocco e' il maggior esportatore di hashish, e tale
attivita' costituisce la maggiore attivita' economica del paese,
come avviene in Afghanistan per la produzione di eroina.
In entrambi i casi, chi l'avrebbe mai immaginato, i proventi della
coltivazione della droga finanziano il terrorismo islamico.
A questo punto non desta alcuna meraviglia che la infame
Regione Emilia-Romagna abbia avviato ufficialmente la coltivazione 
di cannabis su almeno 900 ettari, di cui 312 nella sola provincia di
Bologna: l'Emilia Romagna e' la regione che piu' di tutte privilegia
gli immigrati islamici e le masse di parassiti di sinistra a scapito
dei lavoratori contribuenti. Islam e droga si espandono assieme.
Coloro che si esprimono a favore dell'immigrazione incontrollata e
della liberalizzazione delle droghe sono rinnegati collaborazionisti
di Usama bin Laden, fiancheggiatori di al-Qa'eda.
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P.S.: questo post era destinato a it.politica.lega-nord,
ma gli ulivisti narcoislamici hanno soppresso il newsgroup,
percio' mi riservo il diritto di postare ovunque io lo ritenga
opportuno.

 Cannabis profits 'funding terrorism'
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intelligente quindi?

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