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U.S. General Warns Terrorists Could Exploit Southern Smuggling Routes
The routes that drug smugglers use to move their products from Latin America into the United States could also be employed to bring an unconventional weapon into the country, the head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff warned this week (see GSN, Oct. 20, 2006).
"That network can move anything," he said. "It'll go to the highest bidder. So looking to the future, it's certainly in our interest to do what we can to help the nations in this region to break those networks" to prevent their exploitation by violent extremists, Gen. Martin Dempsey in Brazil.
"It's both the narcoterrorism activities that we see destabilizing our southern border (and) it's that network itself that can be used for other purposes -- and probably will be," he added in discussing the importance of security cooperation between the United States and nations to the south (Robert Burns, Associated Press/Google News, March 30).
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