Another Reason to Quit Snorting

If doing coke wasn't dangerous enough, now comes this story from the New York Post:

Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States, hoping to kill thousands of Americans one year after the 9/11 attacks, The Post has learned.

The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached decided it would be bad for their business - and, possibly, for their own health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug Enforcement Administration's probe of the aborted transaction. The feds were told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had never been made public. The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA's findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.

Sources said the feds were told that bin Laden personally met with leaders of a Colombian drug cartel to in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of tons of cocaine, saying that he was willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to finance the deal.

It was not clear where the meeting took place.

Apparently, the drug lords in Columbia nixed the deal, not because of any care for American children, but because it would hurt their long-term business.

This plan happened right after 9/11, but surely Americans must realize that what we are doing in Iraq is keeping the war front in the Middle East - and not here.

Yes, Osama needs to be eliminated, but not at the expense of the larger war against the Islamofacists.

Michelle Malkin has more.