'Osama planned to poison US-bound cocaine'
Osama bin Laden tried to buy large amounts of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States, it was claimed today.
His plan failed when Colombian drugs barons told the terror chief it would be bad for their business, according to the New York Post.
The newspaper said it had reviewed a document detailing a US probe into the aborted transaction and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s findings.
Bin Laden allegedly met leaders of a Colombian drugs cartel in 2002, just months after the September 11 attack, and said he was willing to pay tens of millions of dollars for tons of cocaine.
But the druglords concluded it would ruin the market for the class A drug in the US and stopped the plan.
They also feared retaliation from the US government if thousands of Americans died after taking the drug, according to the newspaper.
