The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

Between January 2017 and September 2022, a total of 15,293 active-duty service members suffered drug overdoses, and 322 of those were fatal,

Karzai’s government was primarily a military-industrial money-laundering machine for transatlantic security elites, a corrupt conduit through which a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars flowed, but secondarily and almost as important, it was a massive drug cartel that produced nearly all of the world’s illicit opiates.

murdered resurged in 2017, when WikiLeaks released a document showing that the CIA’s Embedded Device Branch had been researching how to infect onboard car computers with remotely operated malware that would enable the agency to carry out undetectable assassinations by steering vehicles into immovable obstacles at high speed.

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The Army as a whole is tremendously diverse, but the infantry is mostly white, the Special Forces is even whiter, and Delta Force is the whitest of all.

There is also a finance troop, including a covert division that essentially launders money for use in denied missions. Commercial banks provide the unit with preloaded debit or credit cards untraceable to the government and are reimbursed through a backdoor channel.

There was an underreported drug angle to this terrifying mayhem. A pair of reports issued by the Pentagon’s inspector general found that Trump’s personal doctor, Ronny Lynn “the Candy Man” Jackson, a rear admiral in the Navy and a veteran of the Iraq War who would later be demoted for his actions, ran an unregulated pharmacy within the White House that dispensed medications to officials and staffers in off-the-books transactions that were free of charge, while he personally drank on the job and misused Ambien. The White House was reportedly “awash in speed,” the downer Xanax, and the military go pill modafinil. Records show that in addition to plentiful supplies of these three, Jackson’s medical unit ordered shipments of morphine, hydrocodone, diazepam and lorazepam, fentanyl, and ketamine. All of these substances can cloud thinking, impair memory, and distort judgment.

First, the Pentagon doesn’t count contractors, even when they’re filling core military functions like gathering intelligence or disposing of explosive ordnance. Second and most significantly, any soldier, sailor, airman, or marine on deployment orders of less than 180 days is excluded from the head count, effectively leaving out all SOCOM personnel, who typically deploy for less than six months at a time. And since JSOC’s very existence is classified, Delta Force isn’t included in any official tallies, nor is SEAL Team Six.

The Army’s Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program was instituted shortly before Lavigne enlisted. The original intent behind the program was to decrease dependence on eyeglasses and contact lenses among service members, but the prospect of free corrective eye surgery, commonly known by the brand name Lasik, proved to be a tremendous recruiting boon in a country where the poor and working class are largely excluded from participation in the medical economy. Opthalmologists working for the Department of Defense have performed some 750,000 eye surgeries under the program in the last twenty years,

Blaber writes in his 2008 memoir, “ten feet from a newspaper stand bustling with businesspersons.” Ali Mohamed, whose true loyalties remain a matter of speculation, was not listed in the Bureau of Prisons’ registry of inmates, and the case against him was never unsealed. His current whereabouts are unknown.

At least two of the fifteen Saudi hijackers—mostly uneducated young men who spoke little or no English—had received immigration assistance, safe reception in the United States, money, cell phones, transportation, housing, and religious counsel from an intelligence agent and a Saudi diplomat in the employ of Bandar bin Sultan.

In 1998, Ali Mohamed, who at times used the alias Abu Osama, or Father of Osama, was one of the al-Qaeda conspirators who bombed a pair of U.S. embassies in East Africa, an act of indiscriminate mass murder that killed hundreds of people in Kenya and Tanzania. At that point, his American handlers reeled him in, arrested him, secured his guilty plea on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism in closed-door, anonymized federal court proceedings, then forever disappeared him into the bowels of the U.S. government without his ever having been formally sentenced.

Dixie Highway, is also among the busiest drug-trafficking routes in the world, because it connects the ports of Florida to a string of voracious drug markets, including Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, with Fayetteville lying at the precise midpoint.

It is my hope that this book will contribute to a reformation of the armed forces and a fundamental rethinking of American foreign policy

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