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Colombian police assault cocaine labs
CNN ^ | September 26, 2004

Posted on 09/26/2004 10:35:42 PM PDT by BykrBayb

Colombian police assault cocaine labs

Sunday, September 26, 2004 Posted: 6:30 PM EDT (2230 GMT)

CUMBITARA, Colombia (AP) -- Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders.

As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.

Associated Press journalists accompanied the officers on the lightning raid Saturday, allowing them to see firsthand the type of dangerous operation that has put a crimp in Colombia's cocaine production.


Members of an anti-narcotics unit are
dropped off in southern Colombia during
a raid on cocaine laboratories.


Columbian police, accompanied by a
hooded informant, land in a coca
field Saturday in Cumbitara.


A Colombian anti-narcotics officer
examines coca base Saturday
during a raid on cocaine labs.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cocaine; colombia; columbia; drugs; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wot
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1 posted on 09/26/2004 10:35:42 PM PDT by BykrBayb
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To: BykrBayb

Plan Colombia in action!


2 posted on 09/26/2004 10:36:56 PM PDT by endthematrix (Bad news is good news for the Kerry campaign!)
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To: BykrBayb

Better late than never..... would have been nice 30 years ago.


3 posted on 09/26/2004 10:41:20 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: BykrBayb
Just a note for those posting responses: there's no "u" in ColOmbia.

:-D

4 posted on 09/26/2004 10:43:37 PM PDT by Theo
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To: BykrBayb

Ah, it's good to hear that the Federal Cocaine Price Support Program is still in business.


5 posted on 09/26/2004 10:43:57 PM PDT by Oliver_Clozoff (Respected in my own little corner of the world.)
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To: BykrBayb

HOW ARE YOU PABLO!!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

6 posted on 09/26/2004 10:46:34 PM PDT by RichInOC (PABLO: WHAT YOU SAY!!)
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To: RichInOC

ALL YOUR FREEBASE ARE BELONG TO US.


7 posted on 09/26/2004 10:48:11 PM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: SteveMcKing

Would have been better than nice. Someone I'll always care deeply for would probably still be alive today. The "what ifs" can eat you alive, if you let them.


8 posted on 09/26/2004 10:52:35 PM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: SteveMcKing

The demand in the US and other countries is so high, the street value versus cost of production so astronomical, and the poverty in colombia so extreme, that I see no reality-based reason to expect the cocaine trade in the US to change.

The fact that colombia is partially controlled by a non-government military that uses terror and targetted assasinations as instruments of policy does NOT help prospects.


9 posted on 09/26/2004 11:12:52 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: SteveMcKing

It was happening about ten years ago at the latest. That was quite a few years after the Colombian government had been begging for assistance and training from our government.


10 posted on 09/26/2004 11:19:50 PM PDT by familyop (Essayons)
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To: Oliver_Clozoff
Ah, it's good to hear that the Federal Cocaine Price Support Program is still in business.

BUMP!

11 posted on 09/26/2004 11:31:55 PM PDT by zarf
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To: BykrBayb
Tobacco and liquor kill far more Americans every year than cocaine. I use them both, wouldn't like armed commandos storming my home, and don't like my tax dollars being wasted to fight someone else's habit.

If this battle we call the "War on Drugs" is going to be won, it will be won in the churches and above all in the home, not on the battlefield or in the courthouse.

12 posted on 09/27/2004 2:32:09 AM PDT by American Soldier
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To: American Soldier; endthematrix; familyop; Oliver_Clozoff; RichInOC; SteveMcKing; Theo; ...
Tobacco and liquor kill far more Americans every year than cocaine. I use them both, wouldn't like armed commandos storming my home, and don't like my tax dollars being wasted to fight someone else's habit.

If this battle we call the "War on Drugs" is going to be won, it will be won in the churches and above all in the home, not on the battlefield or in the courthouse.

What can you say to someone who equates smoking cigarettes and drinking beer with terrorism, and is opposed to the heroes who fight against terrorism? How do you explain that it's wrong to kidnap innocent people and kill them? How do you explain that it's wrong to support these terrorists by buying their product? Or is it best to just let them wallow in ignorance?

13 posted on 09/27/2004 3:08:14 AM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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I don't personally know of anyone dead from cocaine but I've seen a number of lives destroyed or close to it ---- I don't really understand those who want the price of that drug to come down so far that anyone could easily overdose --- but it seems a lot of people will criticize the efforts to control it as only keeping it expensive --- it's terrible how too much cocaine affects the heart.


14 posted on 09/27/2004 5:51:18 AM PDT by FITZ
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What can you say to someone who equates smoking cigarettes and drinking beer with terrorism, and is opposed to the heroes who fight against terrorism?

I disagree with you. The War on Drugs is a waste of money and human resources.

Kidnappings, murder and mayhem occur in the drug world because of the obscene profits that are to be made in that business.

Legalize coke, pot, LSD and everything else for all I care....just make it legal and stop legislating personal behavior and choices that do not directly effect others.

15 posted on 09/27/2004 6:18:59 AM PDT by zarf
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"How do you explain that it's wrong to support these terrorists by buying their product? "

The same can be said of the labor practices in production of chocolate, but you aren't going to get any moral outrage there either.

We would have cocaine in the US with or without FARC. Before farc and before the US pushed the colombian government into going after the cartels, it was being produced and will continue to be produced no matter who in running colombia or the traffic.

You aren't going to get drug users to alter habits based on a long-running civil war in colombia's spillover effects.


16 posted on 09/27/2004 7:59:25 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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"The demand in the US and other countries is so high, the street value versus cost of production so astronomical, and the poverty in colombia so extreme, that I see no reality-based reason to expect the cocaine trade in the US to change."

It's hopeless, I tell you, hopeless!

17 posted on 09/27/2004 8:10:12 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: zarf
"... that do not directly effect others."

But if it indirectly affects others, that's OK?

18 posted on 09/27/2004 8:15:44 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: FITZ
--- it's terrible how too much cocaine affects the heart.

Not to mention the soul. Some of the replies on this thread are clear evidence of what cocaine can do to the soul.

19 posted on 09/27/2004 9:03:56 AM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: zarf

I guess a few dead people here and there is a small price to pay for your pleasure. After all, if it feels good, do it. Let other people pay the price. What do they matter?


20 posted on 09/27/2004 9:08:34 AM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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