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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 02 Feb 2008 : 18:00:19
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Liberia in record cocaine seizure
Barrels containing about 2.5 tonnes of cocaine have been seized from a ship off the coast of Liberia.
It is the single largest drug seizure in the country's history, according to maritime officials.
The ship, the Blue Atlantic, was spotted on the high seas on Thursday by a French military vessel, which intercepted and towed it to the port.
South American cartels are increasingly trying to send their drugs to Europe through West Africa.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia says that Liberian security officials at first did not know what to do with haul.
They said they had not yet decided whether to burn the cocaine or dump it into the ocean.
They were concerned that dumping it could have a negative impact on the environment.
Ashford Pearl, the head of Port Security in Monrovia said 92 barrels of cocaine had been seized.
"It is huge; if this had hit the Liberian market, it would have destroyed the entire country," he said.
Officials said all nine members of the crew arrested on board the ship were Ghanaians who were immediately turned over to the Liberian police.
"They arrested the vessel on high seas; it wasn't in the Liberian waters, but they towed it to Liberia because the ship was flying the flag of Liberia," Mr Pearl said.
West Africa, has increasingly become a point favoured by Latin American drug cartels because of weak local law enforcement and a largely unsupervised coastline.
The drugs are flown or shipped across the Atlantic and then onto markets in Europe.
The past year has seen large cocaine seizures in other countries in the region including Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7222809.stm
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 03 Feb 2008 : 23:02:31
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Thanks Momodou for this information,Africa should fight drug dealers by giving life imprison to any one caught with large amount before it destroy African.  |
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Edited by - LEMON TIME on 03 Feb 2008 23:06:09 |
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serenata
Germany
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Posted - 05 Feb 2008 : 14:39:20
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quote:
Originally posted by LEMON TIME
Thanks Momodou for this information,Africa should fight drug dealers by giving life imprison to any one caught with large amount before it destroy African.
Lemon, I agree!
Cocaine was very common in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Besides other harms, it makes people turn into megalomaniacs - Hitler, who probably was addicted to cocaine, is a good example.
Africa's problems are big enough - you don't need an additional drug problem. Look what drugs did to the child soldiers of Liberia and Sierra Leone... If Europe and the USA want to have drugs, they should go and get them in South America. |
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mbay
Germany
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Posted - 05 Feb 2008 : 15:34:29
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But this will be hard to stop, the interest of the hard currency is too high and anyone tries to barriers their way will simple disappear.
While Mr judge himself and his master are self addicted with that white/ brown gold .them self may not sniffing it but letting those poor people being junkie and covers their own house at the same time stay invisible.
more over we dosent have that securitytiding as the west, and now Those mad-caws are looking only a sensitives areas around the world by trading their dirty bombs.
May Allah save us from evils.
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