RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Associated Press Writer= DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the U.N.'s drug czar said Monday — an exchange of contraband that is especially dangerous in a region now home to cells of an al-Qaida-linked terror group. Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, says "there is more than just spotty evidence" indicating a link between drug traffickers and terror...
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