Adding a visual, locational and real time dimension to a social problem like drug procurement can create a user generated system of accountability for local and international agencies, governments and industry.
But the real regional dimension to all this, and what is bringing them together, is that in all cases what this is about is parties trying to establish new rules of the game, rules of conduct, a new balance of power in the region.
The terrorist that he was, Yasser Arafat took a different dimension to international politics by giving his compatriots a real and sovereign state on the historical ground of their ancestors.