Better jihad through chemistry. "S Korean police bust ‘Taleban-linked' drug ring," from Agence France-Presse, July 4:
SEOUL - South Korean police said Friday they have arrested members of a major drug-trafficking ring with suspected links to Afghanistan's Taleban insurgents.
‘Police have rounded up a drug-trafficking ring involving Afghans and Pakistanis who are suspected of being linked with the Taleban,’ a National Police Agency spokesman told AFP.
‘They are suspected to trying to smuggle raw materials for heroin production into Afghanistan,’ he said.
Police said two Afghans, three Pakistanis and four Koreans tried to use South Korea as a shipping point for several tons of acetic anhydride destined for southern Afghanistan.
The chemical is heated with morphine, extracted from opium, to produce heroin.
‘The key Afghan suspect admitted he did it at the instigation of the Taleban,’ Oh Ki-Duk, an investigator, told AFP. ‘But he claimed he is not a member of the Taleban.’
Police confiscated 12 tons of acetic anhydride in a chemical engineering factory in the Seoul suburb of Ansan and arrested the two Afghans. The chemical was disguised as motor oil.
In a separate operation by the three Pakistanis -- who were also arrested in a Seoul suburb -- police said about 50 tons of the chemical had already been shipped, labelled as disinfectant.
It was sent between April 2007 and March this year.
The operations were funded by the hawala money transfer network widely usedin the Middle East, police said.
The 62 tons of acetic anhydride cost about 360 million won (344,800 dollars) but could be used to produce nearly 30 tons of heroin, Yonhap news agency quoted investigator Kim Ki-Yong as saying.
‘The suspects had money transferred from accounts suspected to be linked to hawala, and they acknowledged they had received orders from the Taleban,’ Kim said.
The acetic anhydride was imported from Japan through several Korean dealers, who are now being questioned.
The investigation started in March after the international police organisation Interpol discovered 14 tons of the chemical which had been shipped from Korea in the southern Pakistani port of Karachi.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Afghanistan produced 8,200 tons of opium base last year, 92 percent of the worldwide total.
The report also noted that 80 percent of the output came from five southern provinces where Taleban insurgents profit from drug-trafficking....
Hello, everyone knows that Europe is become islamic. Now, here in Finland have set up an Islamic party :(. But I would like to ask is USA become islamic nation? I would be very difficult to imagine the U.S. the same situation as Europe.
I'm poor in English, and I hope you will understand what I write.
The Americans are having some issues with this horrendous murdering ideology and political agenda of Islam. I hope the Americans will fight back and keep a keen eye on those followers of this barbaric cult, who have already entered the United States. I hope so dearly.
Another example of how the Islamic mind works use all means necessary, kidnapping, drugs, murder and robbing and raping. The usual disregard for infidel laws because they are below the Sharia laws of Islam. No wonder most of worlds prison proportionally are filled with Muslims. Everything is dictated by the doctrines of Islam. Every behavior and thought. Fashion is dictated by Islam, forget music and art is very limited. Islamic Men follow the fashion example of the barbarian MoHAMtheMUD. Plus the emulate his behavior of raping women, murdering and stealing together with lies.
"The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Afghanistan produced 8,200 tons of opium base last year, 92 percent of the worldwide total."
Every year they are having a bumper harvest in afghanistan surpassing the last year's produce. What beats me is why these fields are not firebombed ?
Tobrigof,your English far exceeds my Finnish :-), and yes we certainly understand what you mean.
On this 232nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...America's birthday...let me assure you that America will never become an islamic nation.
One of the important men in the founding of our nation Patrick Henry said in 1775, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" (see
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=54)
God bless America and also you and your nation.
I've often wondered why the poppy fields were not destroyed every spring, now this is all the more reason too. Or are we really serious about destroying the taliban?
I've often wondered why the poppy fields were not destroyed every spring, now this is all the more reason too. Or are we really serious about destroying the taliban?
Tobrigof,
The US is not becoming an Islamic nation, at least not yet. However, we have Islamic enclaves scattered throughout the country. In these enclaves, Muslims comprise a larger portion of the population and they make demands that would not be accepted anywhere else.
We have footbaths in public airports.
We have taxi drivers who refuse to pick up the blind using seeing-eye dogs and who refuse to pick up returning travelers who are carrying alcohol in transparent duty-free bags.
We have had many canaries in the coal mine, the two above are just a sample. But until something drastic happens, like an American publisher being tried for violating Sharia law, our leaders will go on about their business.
We have government officials banning the use of terms such as jihad and, of course, we have a president who refuses to see the danger we face.
It can only get worse in January, 2009 when we will, barring divine intervention, inaugurate Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of the USA.
One huge problem is the dearth of support from the people of Europe. Until more Europeans join the fight themselves, it can only get harder. Contrary to popular belief, the US is not omnipotent.
How did the Finns react to the Danish cartoons? Were you upset that the Danes stirred up Muslims or did you support the cartoonists? How about Geert Wilders and Fitna? Is he a hatemonger or a film maker?
"Police said two Afghans, three Pakistanis and four Koreans tried to use South Korea as a shipping point for several tons of acetic anhydride destined for southern Afghanistan."
-- from the article above
Were these Koreans in it for the money alone? Or were they Muslims? The Turkish troops in the Korean War managed to convert thousands of Koreans to Islam; as a result, there are now tens of thousands, a conceivable security threat in many ways, not all of them obvious.
Too bad for them, if they had chosen to operate in North Korea, the North Korean army would have helped them load the shipment for transportation..
The numbers don't quite match. While the 60 tons of acetic anhydride sounds large, it only equates to about 30 tons of heroin. However, the crop is reputed to be 8200 tons of morphine base leaving about 8100 tons unaccounted for. The security implications are enormous. If they can transport and trade 8200 tons of anything and do it securely since it is an internationally prohibited product, what else can they move around?
How many Islamic Koreans? Checked the CIA Factbook first. No specific mention, so, they must be part of that "1.8% unspecified faith". This compares to 49.8% of the population that claims no religious affiliation. Found an Islamic Korean source that also claimed a start in 1955 with the Turkish troops doing the conversions. This source, as of 1991, claimed 12,500 members and some completed Haj's. Also, about a dozen Mosques. Well, that was 17 years ago. An arithmetic progression would suggest about 19,000 members today and that may be low since natural processes tend to follow the logarithmic rate of change. Could be 50,000 or more, now.
Re. Muslims in South Korea - my copy of 'Operation World' (2001) which is a combined fact-book/ guide to prayer, and draws not only on sources such as the CIA factbook, but intelligence provided by missionaries and local churches, in 2001 gave the estimated population of Muslims in South Korea as between 32 000 and 40 000, with an estimated rate of increase at 4 %.
It says, of Korean Muslims, I quote:
"Korean Muslims: These are growing in number as a result of Islamic missionary efforts among Koreans working in Saudi Arabia. There are about 40 000 Korean Muslims and 60 % of them live in Seoul. A Korean Islamic University is being planned. There is no specific [Korean Christian] outreach to them and also a lack of knowledge of how to reach them."
In other words: there is a crying need for some on-the-ball Korean-American or Korean-Australian Christian to hurry up and translate Mr Spencer's first three books about Islam, into Korean, as also Rev Dr Mark Durie's "Revelation? Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?" Let the Koreans know what's coming down the pike.
Mightn't hurt for someone to present copies of 'PIG to Islam and the Crusades', 'The Truth About Muhammad', and 'Onward Muslim Soldiers' to the Korean ambassadors in Australia, Canada and the USA, with suitable covering letters that draw particular attention to Islam's deplorable record of destruction vis a vis Buddhism, past and present.
Anyone here have church, family, business or professional contacts with Koreans?
Tae Han Min Guk Man Sei!
Tae Han Min Guk Man Sei!
BTW, Presbyterians in Korea have the Muslims outnumbered many, many times--now, add the Pentecostals, Methodists, Catholics, and other Christians. Something tells me, Dumbledore's Army, that someone in Korea might be at work on Spencer's books even as we write. I suspect the Korean Christians became somewhat aware about what Islam is all about after the murders of their brethren in Iraq and Afghanistan.
These guys could give a rat's tail if the "pigs and dogs" die from their bullets (like Father Ragheed and his subdeacons) or from the drugs they make for us.
Actually, making drugs is all the better! Money from the sale of what kills us! Two birds, one stone!
Kepha
I hope your intuition is correct. And yes, thanks for reminding us of Muslim attacks on Koreans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm well aware of the long-standing and fervent Christian presence in Korea - ever since reading Stephen Neill's monumental and comprehensive overview, "A History of Christian Missions", which includes a handy outline of the way Christianity came to Korea, not just the Protestant church but the very earliest beginning, the indigenous Catholic church. *That* was started by some curious Koreans who heard about the early Catholic missionaries in China, went to check them out, converted, and returned to their own country as witnesses. (Korea is a good example to stymy those who try to claim that Christianity has only ever been spread by violent imperialism).
Also, for many years, while living in one of Australia's biggest cities, my husband and I had for next-door neighbours a lovely Korean Christian family, immigrants to Australia. We had a lot to do with each other, as our children went to the same primary school and were good friends, always in and out of each other's houses.
Many Korean Christian immigrants to Australia have rolled up their sleeves, pitched in, and - while maintaining a strong sense of their Korean culture - involved themselves in Christian ministry and witness, partnering native Aussie churches and congregations. They have been a real shot in the arm. (As the many Sudanese Christian refugees from jihad, who have found haven in Australia, are also proving to be!).