Drug traffickers have discovered a better route to traffic drugs from one country to another. The sea lanes of South Atlantic is the main route to traffic narcotics from Latin America to West and North Africa. According to intelligence officials groups such as al Qaeda are involved in this massive movement. Moreover, the Middle Eastern intelligence states that there is massive growing of Islamic militaries operating in North and West Africa and the drug lords in Latin America. This movement is growing faster, and the groups who are involved in this are becoming stronger.
Many drug lords of different countries such as Colombians are now shifting their drug transportation. The Colombians went from sending cocaine to the Caribbean to Europe, because of the better opportunity to make more money. They are becoming more intelligent because in order to move from one country to another Colombians have to transship the drug through the South Atlantic from Venezuela and to the Africa, through Spain and into Europe According to the spokesman of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The FARC guerrilla movement (which they are known to kill, kidnap and harm people), which they seek to destabilize the government of Colombia is involved and it is known to the authorities that they are linked to the Islamists in North Africa.
A greater concern about the new way of transporting drugs is the groups involved in it; groups such as Al Qaeda in the Meghreb (AQIM), and it is believed that they operate in Moroco, Algeria and Tunisia. The North Africa officials stated that AQIM is amassing large sums of money from the drug trade to use it in financing attacks to cause fear among tourists and keep them away from there. The Middle east intelligence official stated that CIA tries to monitos the trafficking but cannot stop it in a country where Islamists and drug dealers because they bribe the officials to keep them quiet. 
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/17/islamic-militants-boosting-role-in-d
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