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2015 Law Annals Titu Maiorescu U. 38 (2015)
The Concept of Narcoterrorism and Its Implications

handle is hein.journals/latitu2015 and id is 428 raw text is: THE CONCEPT OF NARCOTERRORISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS Oana CHICO$* ABSTRACT Narcoterrorism arose as a powerful weapon in the propaganda war led by the government against terrorists, insurgents, organized crime, drug traffickers, and even against sovereign states. Drugs, rod of the twentieth century, with deep roots in the earliest days of history, continue to be impressive, by the magnitude of trafficking and consumption levels, and at the beginning of the third millennium of the Christian era. In any analysis we are trying to do on terrorism, it is necessary to see it in terms offour defining features: terrorism is violent, criminal and clandestine and staged by noncombatants. KEYWORDS: narcotertorism, terrorism, drug trafficking, narcotics. Introduction What is narcoterrorism? Narcoterrorism is defined as being: the use of drug trafficking to propagate the objectives of certain governments and terrorist orga- nizations. Considering the new events, some analysts of 90's associated terrorism with the so-called gray zone phenomenon expression designating threats against member nations of some non-state as well as of some non-governmental organizations. Moreover, narcoterrorism is a term that creates debates among experts ever since it was first used in 1983 by the Peruvian President, Fernando Belainde Terry, to describe attacks made against anti-drug Peruvian police by Marxist Sendero Luminoso guerrillas. The term was later adopted by the former US President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In reality the term can be found long before in the literature of 1950s, referring to China's influence on drug trafficking. Ph.D. Candidate, Tim Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania. Acknowledgment: This work was supported by the strategic grant POSDRU/159/ 1.5/S/141699, Project ID 141699, co-financed by the European Social Fund within the Sectorial Operational Program Human Resourses Development 2007-2013. 1 Grant Wardlaw, ,,Traffic and Terrorism by Granr Wardlaw. 38

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