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THOUGHTS ON TERROR [1996]

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From a speech by Arnold Trebach, then-president of the U.S.-based

Drug

Policy Foundation, now Professor Emeritus of Justice, Law and Society,American

University, to a criminology conference in Jerusalem in 1996:

"What is not generally recognized is that the skills and personnel most

successful in enforcing prohibition are also the most effective in

curbing

terrorism.

The greatest successes of the American Drug Enforcement Administration

have

come from good intelligence, long-range planning and prediction, and

undercover work. These are the same skills that other agents

have used to

penetrate terror networks.

It goes without saying that society is at greater risk from bombs than

drugs.

All of us would be infinitely safer if the courageous efforts of anti-drug

agents in the U.S., Israel and other countries were focused on terrorists

aimed at blowing up airliners and skyscrapers than at drug traffickers

seeking to sell the passengers and office dwellers cocaine and marijuana."