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Navy Seizes Boat With $11M in Hashish
The Associated Press ^
| 1/4/04
Posted on 01/02/2004 10:30:11 AM PST by freeperfromnj
U.S. Navy Seizes Small Boat Carrying $11 Million Worth of Hashish Near Persian Gulf
WASHINGTON Jan. 2 The U.S. Navy has seized another small boat carrying drugs near the Persian Gulf after interrogating smugglers with suspected links to the al-Qaida terrorist network, the military announced Friday. The boat seized on New Year's Day was the fourth drug-smuggling vessel intercepted by Americans in the past two weeks in or near the Persian Gulf. Pentagon officials say they believe all four boats, which were carrying hashish, heroin and methamphetamines, are part of a drug smuggling operation which funnels money to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
An American search of the boat, a wooden vessel called a dhow, found about 2,800 pounds of hashish with an estimated street value of $11 million, according to a statement from the Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain.
U.S. Navy ships including the USS Port Royal, USS Peleliu and USS Germantown stopped the boat Thursday in the northern Arabian Sea, said Cmdr. James Graybeal, a 5th Fleet spokesman. Searchers found the drugs Friday under blocks of ice and in hidden compartments in the vessel, he said.
Fifteen people aboard the dhow are being held by the Navy aboard the Peleliu, an amphibious assault ship which carries the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 13thmeu; 5thfleet; alqaedaships; drugtrafficking; interdiction; moneytrail; usn; ussgermantown; usspeleliu; ussportroyal; wod
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To: 68skylark
I'll say it was!
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posted on
01/02/2004 11:45:24 AM PST
by
6323cd
To: freeperfromnj
Can you say PROPAGANDA boys and girls? I knew you could!
I thought Al Qaeda was funded by Afganhi opium crops and Saudi Oil money... why not destroy the opium crops in Afghanistan?
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posted on
01/02/2004 12:02:06 PM PST
by
Melinator
(If you die with less than two kids, you get the Darwin Award!)
To: CWOJackson
WOD ping :)
To: Cultural Jihad; Dane
WOD ping :)
To: Melinator
There is a well known drug connection.
To: freeperfromnj
When will ABC figure out that $11m = $11,000?
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posted on
01/02/2004 12:54:41 PM PST
by
presidio9
(protectionism is a false god)
To: freeperfromnj
The more they seize, the more they drive up the price, and the easier it will be to conceal and smuggle $10 million in drugs.
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posted on
01/02/2004 1:30:31 PM PST
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: 6323cd; 68skylark
One can't be too careful though.
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posted on
01/02/2004 1:34:01 PM PST
by
presidio9
(protectionism is a false god)
To: presidio9
When will ABC figure out that $11m = $11,000?Eleven thousand dollars? That would make the street price eighty seven hundreths of a penny per gram. I don't think the WOsD's is going THAT badly. Heh heh heh.
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posted on
01/02/2004 1:51:06 PM PST
by
TigersEye
("Where there is life there is hope!" - Terri Schiavo)
To: Destructor
Wait 'til the potheads see this thread. Hope your wearing your asbestos long johns! Yes, imagine all the poor medical patients who won't be able to get their hashish now.
Here comes Ashcroft's police state, again.
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:00:03 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: thoughtomator
...Agree. As much as I don't want government to act against me for what I consume on my property, it's the rule of law. Law enforcement, in harms way, by conviction or ordered is noble and admirable. I support that effort. License, regulate, tax, decriminalize. I support that view...
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:03:52 PM PST
by
gargoyle
To: Snickersnee
And how would John Paul Jones settle the English Opium trade?
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:17:09 PM PST
by
earplug
To: ClintonBeGone
Was it the Ollie North Drugs for Guns plan or the loss of the forth ammendment during our war on drugs?
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:18:48 PM PST
by
earplug
To: gargoyle
Ah, the Noble law enforcement of unconsitutional law.
The 1st, 2nd, and 4th, 10th are just noble bumps in the road.
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:22:13 PM PST
by
earplug
To: earplug
You left out the ninth, and the intent of the 2nd, military arms.
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:26:30 PM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Want to see the US morph into France? Vote Dem. (For slo-motion viewing, vote Rep.))
To: presidio9
When will ABC figure out that $11m = $11,000? The Journalism Stylebook has G or K for 1,000 and M for a Million.
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posted on
01/02/2004 8:18:22 PM PST
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(I have a photo of myself with Mussilini. He's upside down of course.)
To: ovrtaxt
I hope our Republican leaders will acknowledge your 2nd Ammendment and abolish restrictions on Military weapons.
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posted on
01/02/2004 8:52:15 PM PST
by
earplug
To: earplug
Was it the Ollie North Drugs for Guns plan or the loss of the forth ammendment during our war on drugs?
Please enlighten me Chief Justice of fact or fiction, in what foreign country does our fourth amendment apply?
To: HELLRAISER II
" Just out of curiosity do either of you drink or smoke cigarettes and if you do what will you do when the anti smoke kooks outlaw alcohol & tobacco."
Not that it's really any of your damned business, but no I don't drink, smoke, or use drugs. What's more-- I wouldn't give a damn if alcohol, and tobacco were made illegal. I wouldn't be "on the side of" the smokers and drunks, any more than I would the potheads!
Call me boring, but I prefer to be sober.
To: Destructor
You know what you're right it isn't any of my damn business and neither is it your's or any one else's whether we do or not either. At least you are pure and without sin so of course you have every right to chastise those of us who have not found perfection yet as you have. However those of us who have vices & have not lived up to your expectations might not agree with you. I just thought if you were put in our shoes you may not be so high and mighty, obviously I was wrong.
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posted on
01/05/2004 11:14:56 AM PST
by
HELLRAISER II
(Give us another tax break Mr. President)
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