Terrorist Criminal Pipelines and Criminalized States: Emerging Alliances

Abstract

On July 1, 2010, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment that outlined the rapid expansion of operations of transnational criminal organizations and their growing, often short-term strategic alliances with terrorist groups. These little-understood transcontinental alliances pose new security threats to the United States, as well as much of Latin America, West Africa, and Europe.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1042697

Entities

People

  • Douglas Farah

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Criminals
  • Failed States
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Bombs
  • Personnel Management
  • Police
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Undocumented Noncitizens
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • West Africa

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Urban Planning and Geography.