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The Blurred Line Between Drug Cartels and Terrorism: A New Era of Violence and Response
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives to al-Qaeda. Today, a different but equally devastating threat persists—cartel-mediated drug violence, particularly fueled by fentanyl. Every two weeks, these traffickers kill approximately the same number of Americans that were murdered on that tragic day, but the methods and scale of their operations have dramatically evolved.