Monday, September 19, 2005
Republican RhetIraq: Rep. Hyde
Who: Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL)
Source: The Washington Times (via "World Peace Herald)
Quotes:
In a Sept. 8 letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde wrote of an "emerging and dangerous growth of the illicit drug trade in Iraq, especially with heroin, now originating and pouring out of nearby Afghanistan."
"We can no longer ignore the threat to our national security from drugs in Iraq," the Illinois Republican said in the letter, obtained by The Washington Times.
"We know that illicit drugs fuel and finance terrorism in Afghanistan, where the opium and heroin in the region originates," Mr. Hyde said in his letter to Miss Rice. "It passes out through terrorist-controlled areas, is taxed by them, and helps finance and arm our terrorists enemies."
Mr. Hyde said he wants to a new U.N. study "to be especially focused on its potential impact in financing insurgent terrorists and their networks."
Source: The Washington Times (via "World Peace Herald)
Quotes:
In a Sept. 8 letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde wrote of an "emerging and dangerous growth of the illicit drug trade in Iraq, especially with heroin, now originating and pouring out of nearby Afghanistan."
"We can no longer ignore the threat to our national security from drugs in Iraq," the Illinois Republican said in the letter, obtained by The Washington Times.
"We know that illicit drugs fuel and finance terrorism in Afghanistan, where the opium and heroin in the region originates," Mr. Hyde said in his letter to Miss Rice. "It passes out through terrorist-controlled areas, is taxed by them, and helps finance and arm our terrorists enemies."
Mr. Hyde said he wants to a new U.N. study "to be especially focused on its potential impact in financing insurgent terrorists and their networks."
