It is important to note that their cooperation with other criminal organizations, drug-trafficking organizations, and providing operational capacity training, explosives training, and that sort of thing does represent a threat not only to our neighbors in the region that are fighting the drug-trafficking organizations, but the American people who bear the brunt of this narcotrafficking.
Noriega emphasizes the threat posed by drug-trafficking organizations to the U.S. and its neighbors.
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