Bin Laden Coke Plot

[CatWoman]

FWIW -- I needed cheering up and called a friend who lives in New York.

He pointed out this story to me:

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 Post has learned.

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.

Sources said the feds were told that bin Laden personally met with leaders of a Colombian drug cartel to in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of tons of cocaine, saying that he was willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to finance the deal.

It was not clear where the meeting took place. Bin Laden hoped that large numbers of Americans dying from poisoned coke would lead to widespread terror. "They wanted to kill thousands or people — more than the World Trade Center," said a source.

Although the drug lords would have reaped millions of dollars in profits by selling the cocaine to bin Laden, they knew that if his plan succeeded it might effectively destroy the market for their coke in America for years, sources said.

But that was only one reason they declined bin Laden's offer. The other was their fear of retaliation from the U.S. government once its citizens started to die from the drugs, according to sources.

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/50787.htm

[Eric J in MN]

1. I don't believe a word of that story.

Anonymous source for something completely unlikely.

[acmavm]

3. You know, I'm glad you posted before I did because I came back

to post I don't believe it either.

Do you mean to say that this hypocritical bunch of red necked bastards would even give a shit if a bunch of people died while snorting or injecting cocaine? Not this bunch. All they have to do is test bush**s before he snorts his, that's all they have to worry about.

[punpirate]

2. Sounds to me like an informant...

... in trouble needed a get-out-of-jail-free card. That, or the propagandists have been hanging out in Hollywood and are getting positively creative.

Cheers.

[Nevernose]

4. Maybe he was aiming for one coke fiend in particular...

[dogday]

5. That gives new meaning to the words Recreational Use

could be the last use you ever do.

[madinmaryland]

6. NY Post. Nothing believable to be found in that rag. nuff said!

[cal04]

7. funny you should mention this story

My republican son :banghead:
just brought that sleaze rag home with a picture of Bin Laden on the cover and even he said, did you hear about this and I just looked at him and said" what do you expect from a sleaze paper" even he said it sounded ridiculous

[TomClash]

8. This is the worst newspaper in the United States

Compared to the New York Post, the National Inquirer is The New York Review of Books.