02/05/12: The Washington Times reports that collaboration between Latin American drug cartels and groups such as Iran's Quds Force and the Islamic terror group Hezbollah is growing “far faster than most policymakers in Washington, DC, choose to admit,” a former US intelligence official testified Tuesday. Michael A. Braun, former chief of operations and intelligence for the DEA, told lawmakers that the operational capability of such groups is being “strengthened by the close relations that they are working hard to develop with very powerful organized criminal organizations in our neighborhood and throughout Latin America.”

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