Via the ever reliable New York Post, via Drudge:
Tue Jul 26 2005 09:43:35 ET
Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States, hoping to kill thousands of Americans one year after the 9/11 attacks, the NEW YORK POST reported on Tuesday.
The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached decided it would be bad for their business – and, possibly, for their own health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s probe of the aborted transaction.
The feds were told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had never been made public.
The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA’s findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.
Developing…
I LOVE the TITLE!
As for the report: Oh sure. Yup. Uh huh.
P.S. It’d kill off half of Hollywood.
Osama tell the drug lords that he planned on using the coke to poison people. Just buy it. What a stupid story. And I assume bin-Laden flew coach to Medellin?
trying to kill someone by poisoning their cigar…
I thought that Castro’s cigar was supposed to blow up?
Besides — as we ALL know, and so do they — it’d be far easier and more destructive to hit a nuclear plant or a major chemical plant.
Shocked! To know that Osama thinks exactly like our government. We could use someone of that impressive intelligence. Don’t tell me I’m supposed to be worried about poison cocaine now.
HA! That’s so funny, Alice… hadn’t thought of that angle 🙂
Right. He’s got the biggest poppy fields in the world right next door to him, with his best friends running them, but instead of poisoning opium, he goes to South America to lace cocaine. Uh huh. And was he planning on including poisoned razor blades with that?
Now this really cuts to the heart of things! Of course, we wouldn’t want to drawattention to that fact that the US has screwed up in more than one area of the world, losing their “war on drugs” as well as on terror, would we? 🙂