South America ? The administration is collecting evidence of al Qaeda operatives involved in cocaine trafficking in Paraguay and Colombia. Islamic fundamentalist cells are operating in a tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Evidence has been found of al Qaeda members in this no man's land, a senior administration official says.

This reraises the issue that I brought up last week--what would be the impact on domestic cocaine consumption (and concomitantly, Andean drug warlords' revenues) if the rumor were to spread that nose candy supplies have been laced with anthrax?