Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS Smart Power Speaker Series event with Adm. James Stavridis, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, was quoted by Agence France Press, "U.S. Fears 'Disastrous' Links in Latin America with Islamic Militants."
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A CSIS Smart Power Speaker Series event with Adm. James Stavridis, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, was quoted by Agence France Press, "U.S. Fears 'Disastrous' Links in Latin America with Islamic Militants."
A top US military commander said Wednesday he fears a "disastrous" linkup between drug traffickers and radical Islamists in Latin America, where he said Iran wields growing influence.
"I fear greatly that the connectivity between narcoterrorism and Islamic radical terrorism could be disastrous in this region," Admiral James Stavridis, head of the US Southern Command, told a conference on Latin America.
"What I worry about in this region with outside actors coming into it is the potential for those streams to cross, if you will, for the fuel of narcoterrorism to become engaged in Islamic radicalism here in the Americas, here in our home," he said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. Read the article
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