U.S. forces have figured out a new way to get all that offensive cocaine out of Colombia: smuggle it out, and, while they’re at it, sell it back in the States.
According to several reports filed this weekend, five of the hundreds of U.S. troops stationed in the country as part of “Plan Colombia” have been arrested for using a military aircraft to transport the sixteen kilos of cocaine they were caught with to the U.S. via the military base in El Paso, Texas where they landed.
Narco News article
Not that this isn't what we've been doing all along. Perhaps, it was the CIA's turf, and the troops thought they'd step in on it.
Details are still quite sketchy, but the basic facts of the case speak for themselves. Colombian president and Bush administration favorite Alvaro Uribe said in a press conference that the suspects were “members of the American military detachment that provides us training and contributes in many areas,” and that “it would not be surprising if there were more people involved, Americans and potentially Colombians as well.”
Oh yeah.
Associated Press
reports:
“It was the second major scandal to hit the U.S. military in Colombia.
“In 1999, the wife of former commander of U.S. anti-drug operations in Colombia, Laurie Heitt, pleaded guilty of shipping $700,000 in cocaine and heroin to New York in diplomatic parcels. She was sentenced to five years in prison.”
Colombia has known all along about the CIA involvement in the drug traffic. Why now?
Hmmmm..... A Narco News reader writes, in response to this story,
“She only got 5 years for sending 700,000 worth of coke? I got 3 1/2 to 9 for possession of less than an ounce!”
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