Close connection between terrorism and organized crime, trafficking illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms trafficking, illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly material

WMD: Terrorists join organized crime in trafficking of nuclear, biological materials

- Jim Kouri
Saturday, October 29, 2011

More and more world leaders are becoming concerned over the close connection between terrorists and transnational organized crime (TOC), including their cooperation with one another in the illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological weapons and other potentially deadly materials, according to United Nations officials.

At UN Headquarters in New York, the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), which was set up in the days following the attacks by Al Qaeda against New York and Washington on 9-11, stressed that despite “the real and significant achievements of the last 10 years,â€