Los Angeles: 12 arrested in counter-terror and drug-trafficking investigation

File this under Enemy Within. This must be serious if the LA Times is reporting on crimes committed by Muslims.
FROM JIHADWATCH.ORG:
Los Angeles: 12 arrested in counter-terror and drug-trafficking investigation
Including, evidently, at least one supporter of Hizballah.
There is, of course, a close link between jihad finance and drug trafficking. The Taliban made its living off drugs when it was in power, and probably still does. Several years ago, Abdul Rashid, a Taliban anti-drug official, explained that his job was to limit hashish use by Muslims, but said: "Opium is permissible because it is consumed by kafirs in the West and not by Muslims or Afghans."
"12 arrested in counter-terrorism and drug-trafficking investigation," by Greg Krikorian for the Los Angeles Times
(thanks to Sr. Soph):
A dozen people were arrested Tuesday on charges of narcotics trafficking, money laundering and selling counterfeit goods after a two-year counter-terrorism and drug investigation centered in Los Angeles' downtown garment district.
The focus of the federal investigation was Ali Khalil Elreda, 32, who was detained at Los Angeles International Airport last year, accused of trying to smuggle $120,000 in money orders and cashier's checks, hidden in a child's toy, to Lebanon, according to an indictment and an affidavit filed in the case.
In 2005, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department official showed a Senate committee a picture of a tattooed shop owner who had been arrested the year before on charges of selling counterfeit high-fashion merchandise. The tattoo was a symbol of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed guerrillas operating in Lebanon.
In his testimony, Lt. John Stedman, a top supervisor in the department's emergency operations bureau, did not identify the shop owner. Stedman was not involved in the most recent investigation.
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