Will ISIS Team-Up With Mexican Drug Cartels?

By Robert Farago

washingtonpost.com’s article The Islamic State creates a new type of jihadist: Part terrorist, part gangster reveals that many if not most of ISIS’ European operatives/sympathizers are criminals. The jihadis explain away their violation of the Koran as a necessary “compromise” to fight the infidels – when they can be bothered. The proto-terrorists’ tendency to finance their activities by low-level drug dealing and theft is actually an advantage for law enforcement; they appear on the police radar early in their “career.” The WaPo article fail to point out a more dangerous possibility . . .

ISIS may team-up with Mexican drug cartels.

The plain truth: the Mexican cartels are multi-billion dollar international criminal syndicates with affiliates in every major U.S. city. Their tentacles and alliances stretch around the globe. China, for example, provides the cartels with the precursor chemicals to create meth for the American market – by the ton. Would the cartels form an alliance with ISIS?

The smart money says no.

Even without putting on a tin foil hat and examining the unofficial relationship between the U.S. government and the Mexican cartels, the drug thugs understand that there are rules to …Read the Rest

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