DRUGS ARE NOT FUNDING TERRORISM
Vanda Felbab-Brown, who is an expert in international conflict and organized crime and a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution, argues that the narrative of terrorist organizations involved in drug trafficking is founded on “half-truths.” Felbab-Brown contends that is agencies use some cases, and manipulate facts in the drug trade to justify its involvement. "Many of these links are vastly exaggerated, and based on extraordinarily shabby evidence, the narco-terrorism narrative is based on a lot of drama and myth” says Felbab-Brown.(71)

Felbab-Brown dismantles the idea that terrorist organization are narco-terrorist by saying …show more content…
Felbab-Brown argues that ”there are just as many government links to the drug trade as there are terrorist links and that it is easier to blame terrorists rather than institutional corruption.” She even goes as far as to say that “the best way of being a drug trafficker is to work for the ministry of counter narcotics." She also hints at the idea that state officials in countries that are involved in drug trafficking may be keen in the spreading of misleading information “exaggerating the role of Islamic terrorists in drug …show more content…
According to Virginia Comolli, from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, “evidence shows that terrorists are no more likely than state authorities to be involved in the drug trade.” Terrorist then have a far less of a role in the drug trafficking business where other players are having an equal or greater role. "The collusion of state authorities is at the core of the problem and it is extremely hard to eradicate," says