After leading Bush's successful campaign, Allbaugh was appointed as head of FEMA, whose internal organization he shook up in order to shrink the agency and its scope. In particular, the Allbaugh FEMA diminished the Clinton administration's organizational emphasis on disaster mitigation in favor of terrorism response.
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Drug traffickers enjoy relative safety in military bases. There is no serious control there. German police cannot work there. However, outside of military bases German law-enforcement is in effect. True, any police can be bought. But the level of corruption in Germany is not as high as, say, in Russia. This is why it is more convenient for Americans to establish distribution centers in other places. I believe that, in time, such centers will move to their military installations in Poznan, Poland, and also in Romania and Bulgaria.
In the wake of 9/11, Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, has claimed to possess information linking the American 9/11, and much else, to massive drug-trafficking which has corrupted high level U.S. officials. Among other things, she has claimed that the U.S. has never gone after top-level drug traffickers, because:Pravda/aangirfan
"this would upset "certain foreign relations."
But it would also expose certain of our elected officials, who have significant connections with high-level drugs- and weapons-smuggling - and thus with the criminal underground, even with the terrorists themselves...
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In the last three decades, three important facts have emerged about the international drug traffic. The first is that it is both huge and growing.Peter Dale Scott/LobsterNarcotics are estimated to be worth between $500 billion and $1 trillion a year, an amount, according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in remarks to a United Nations General Assembly session in June 2003, that is greater than the global oil and gas industry, and twice as large as the overall automobile industry.The second is that it is both worldwide and above all "highly integrated." At global drug summits such as the one in Armenia in 1993, representatives of the Sicilian Mafia, the Brighton Beach Organizatsiya, and Colombian drug lords, have worked out a common modus operandi, with the laundering of dirty money entrusted chiefly to the lawless Russian banks.
The third important fact, undeniable since the 1980 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, is that governments with global pretensions will avail themselves, in pursuit of their own political ends, of the resources, both financial and political, of the drug traffic.
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Scott at Flashpoint