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PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.

Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.

“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.

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PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br /> <br /> Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br /> <br /> “What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.