Iran-Contra Arms Dealer Monzer Al Kassar Arrested in Spain

June 9, 2007(LPAC)--The infamous arms dealer Monzer Al Kassar and four others were arrested in Spain and Romania following their indictment for conspiracy to sell arms to the Columbian FARC narco terror group. Al Kassar has been a subject of investigations by EIR for over 2 decades as one of the key controllers of international terrorism, drug and army running, who in the 1980s served as part of the Oliver North-led Iran-Contra operation.

On Friday, June 8, the Syrian Al Kassar, and his two body guards were arrested in Madrid after arriving on a flight from Al Kassar's base in Malaga, in southern Spain. Two other men, Tareq Mousa al Ghazi and Luis Felipe Moreno-Goday, were arrested in Romania the same day.

According to a report in today's International Herald Tribune, a U.S. federal indictment was made public in New York. Agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency, posing as members of the FARC entrapped the network in proposing an arms deal involving machine guns, rocket granades and surface to air missiles. They were charged for not only illegal weapons dealing but conspiracy to kill U.S. officials and citizens and money laundering. The U.S. will seek Al Kassar's extradition to the U.S.