71.   Traffickers use drug profits to buy imported, state-of-the-art weaponry for turf wars.

72.   U.N. officials and others believe the drug profits may also help bankroll terrorist networks linked to bin Laden and his al-Qaida network.

73.   Undercover Customs agents told everyone along the money laundering line that they were trying to cleanse drug profits.

74.   Villanueva has consistently denied any illicit involvement with Montesinos, who is wanted on illegal arms dealing charges, laundering drug profits, influence peddling and directing death squads.

75.   He allegedly worked with James Herrick Ellis, a US citizen, who laundered their illicit drug profits through Hong Kong shell corporations and then into US shell corporations.

76.   He claims to lead the Shan ethnic minority in their fight for independence from Rangoon and finances his army from drug profits.

77.   He also said that if his campaign accepted drug profits, he was unaware of it.

78.   He allegedly worked with James Herrick Ells, a US citizen, who laundered their illicit drug profits through Hong Kong shell corporations and then into US shell corporations.

79.   A separate indictment charged a former Lehman Brothers employee with assisting in the laundering of millions of dollars of drug profits for the same Southeast Cartel.

80.   Boutros-Ghali noted that drug profits appeared to be growing, despite increasing seizures by anti-trafficking forces worldwide.