Unfortunately,
nothing could be more true! Not party dues, but extortion, "tax" on refugee
allowences, and drug money is how PKK finances terror. That means unlimited
supplies for your local dealer, and billions of dollars for PKK terror.
| "For
guns they need money. For money they use heroin," one agent says. Part
of their money comes from an old-fashioned protection racket, McGivney
says. "They knock on your door, and if you're
in the business, you're going to hand over a percentage of your business
– or you're going to be shot," he says. The undercover agents say they
have found that the PKK actually controls some laboratories. They believe
the PKK may have an even broader role in the heroin trade... the PKK, can
be found at the apex of many Southwest Asian heroin cases, they say. "Almost
every major Southwest Asian heroin drug investigation – whether it starts
with Indians, or Germans or Pakistanis – winds up [with pkk]
in [so called] Kurdistan [comprising parts of Iran, Iraq and Eastern Turkiye],"
an agent says. excerpted froman article
by Richard Cole of the Associated Press- published
in the Salt Lake Tribune, December 16, 1996. |
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