The Colombian navy has seized two homemade submarines believed to have been built by the Farc rebel group to smuggle cocaine out of the country. Posted on 11/01/2007 10:24:52 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The Colombian navy has seized two homemade submarines believed to have been built by the Farc rebel group to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
The two fibreglass vessels were found in a clandestine shipyard outside the country's largest port, Buenaventura.
One of the 17m (56ft) submarines was ready for launch, while the other had nearly been completed, the navy said.
Correspondents say drug-traffickers are increasingly relying on the sea to avoid checkpoints and border crossings.
Since 2005, the Colombian armed forces have uncovered nine homemade submarines, including a 20m (66ft) vessel on the country's Caribbean coast in August.
In 2000, police found a 30m (100ft) steel submarine under construction far inland, near the capital Bogota, which would have been capable of carrying up to 200 tons of cocaine.
bmflr, I’ve seen this kind of thing before.
Sounds like it may be time for some aggressive A.S.W. “Sighted Sub - Sank Same!”
I liked the one about them using trained dolphins as mules.
I would love to read a techno-thriller about a rogue group with unlimited finances develop a genetic superbug that rendered all types of coca plants infertile or capable of producing any amount of opium.
The harvest of the next crop would be a big surprise to a LOT of people.
Should of waited until they put to see than sink them with the product inside.
Then we’d see a big shift of drug routes from the middle east and the Golden Triangle. It’s like pushing on a tube of toothpaste.
BS. They issued this same report last year when the Plan Colombia funding came up for review. Another 500 million dollars of our tax money down the tubes. I am sure Calderon will add on to his estate.
What does Calderon(Mexico) have to do with Colombia?
CBP Air and Marine Directs Interdiction of Semi-Sub Smuggling Vessel
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/082007/08222007_2.xml
Sorry, I forgot the Columbian president was Alvaro URIBE Velez.
Those fiberglass hulls were not part of last years story, just the steel ones found inland.
I know your against the war on drugs, and would rather see this stuff dumped on our streets in greater abundance, and made even easier for children to access and destroy their lives, and destroy our nation in general, but I disagree.
I also disagree that it is a waste of taxpayers money. Keeping this stuff off the streets is cheaper that paying for all the social ills, the crime, sickness and death it causes.
Most of the crime and killings happen not because of intoxication but because the trade must be clandestine.
B.S. drug addicts can't afford the habit because they are too burned out to work. They'd still be robbing, breaking into houses and killing to get the money for their fix even if it were "legal". They'd still be sharing needles and the aids, hepatitis, etc. that goes along with it.
They'd still overdose, wind up in hospitals under taxpayers dime getting cleaned up. They'd still be patronizing methadone clinics, they'd still wind up in prison or mental institutions, all of which is a burden to taxpayers.
If it were 'legal' the government stuff would still be crap, and better, tax free "street drugs" would still be sold underground. The whole idea that "legalized drugs" would solve any problems is laughable. Those that propose it obviously haven't thought out that argument very well, probably because they are too stoned to think.
Legalized would only mean government controlled, like tobacco and alcohol. It is still illegal to smuggle tobacco and alcohol. There are still laws governing possession amounts. That's why there are still tobacco and booze smugglers.
These things have to be death traps. A dolphin fart would probably crack that hull like a depth charge.
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