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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: Columbia Drug Woes ... |
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Colombia Drug War Criticized
By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 7, 4:02 PM ET
BOGOTA, Colombia - Resilient rebels. Rebounding drug crops. Rogue American soldiers, snared in plots to smuggle cocaine and funnel stolen ammunition to paramilitary death squads.
The bad news has been piling up fast, almost five years after the United States began spending $3 billion under its Plan Colombia aid program to wipe out cocaine and heroin production  and crush a long-running leftist insurgency.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/colombia_us_drug_war_woes
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The war on "drugs" criticized eh ??? How refreshing.
Bad news piling up now for almost 5 years ??? I guess while studying at journalism school Mr. Selsky never heard of Contragate. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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This is a strange post.. its the fault of some rogue American soldiers that fuel the drug trade?
Sure they get caught up in it.. everyone who sees those big $$-signs do.. but damn there is a lot more involved than just that!
That would probably account for about 0.001% of the entire problem/issue when it comes to finger pointing and trying to blame certain elements. |
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Derrek
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| No, but if you're a goofy left-winger who hates the USA, then your going to come up with any lame-ass post you can just to waste our time. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Drug use is epidemic at many U.S. universities. |
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FUBAR
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds exciting!. A spell as an esl-teacher drug runner for Pablo escobar could be just what I need after years of tedious boredom in Korea. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
This is a strange post.. its the fault of some rogue American soldiers that fuel the drug trade?
Sure they get caught up in it.. everyone who sees those big $$-signs do.. but damn there is a lot more involved than just that!
That would probably account for about 0.001% of the entire problem/issue when it comes to finger pointing and trying to blame certain elements. |
FBI Nabs Troops, Officers in Drug Sting
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
TUCSON, Ariz. - Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, undercover FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints, the government said Thursday.
Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, seven members of the Arizona Army National Guard, five members of the Arizona Department of Corrections and a police officer, officials said.
All 16 agreed to plead guilty to being part of a bribery and corruption conspiracy and were scheduled to enter pleas Thursday in federal court, said Noel Hillman, a Justice Department official.
Each faced a single conspiracy count carrying a maximum prison term of five years and a $250,000 fine, though all could be entitled to probation, Hillman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fbi_cocaine_sting |
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Koreabound2004
Joined: 19 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Pet peeve: when people spell Colombia....as Columbia!
Argggghhhhhhh!
I have been to Colombia a few times....and coming back I was searched for drugs several times....
Gee....I wonder how all the coke is getting to the US???  |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreabound2004 wrote: |
| Pet peeve: when people spell Colombia....as Columbia! Argggghhhhhhh! |
Point taken. Mind you, we can thank YAHOO for their spelling.
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I have been to Colombia a few times....and coming back I was searched for drugs several times....
Gee....I wonder how all the coke is getting to the US??? |
Well, to paraphrase PLATO : "Who searches the searchers ???"
As most of us realize, state sanctioned officials certainly have access to the best contraband all around. Whether it ends up in their blood stream or the illicit profits thereof in their bank accounts, only a precious few can say  |
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