Has anyone looked up the details of all of this? The DEA has been notorious for arresting people overseas and indicting them for just participating(i.e. being in the same room) in conversations about drug trafficking even if those conversations were between DEA agents.
Just a quick glimpse at the Wikipedia page actually talks about 5 drugs that seem to me like over the counter medicine. What's kinda interesting to me skimming this and looking at the references is that the assassins and a lot of the operations were Israelis and the whole thing was run from Tel Aviv, but there's zero reference to any of those people. They are just called the Israeli business partners.