http://www.thedailyjournalonline.com/article.asp?CategoryId=12393&ArticleId=206247
Massive drug lab destroyed NariÑo, Colombia A huge cocaine-producing compound, with room to sleep as many as 100 workers, was destroyed by Colombian jungle commandos on Wednesday. The raid took place near the river Guiza in the department of Nariño in the far south-west of the country, on the border with Ecuador. Nariño is currently Colombia's biggest coca-growing region, with the cocaine traffic divided between FARC rebels and right-wing paramilitaries. The laboratory was in a "zone of influence" of the Mobile Column Aldana of the FARC. More than 20 tons of chemicals were seized, but no arrests were made. A spokesman for the Anti-Narcotics Squad of the National Police told the Daily Journal, "They hear the helicopters five minutes before they arrive, and, as the terrain is very wild they can disappear very easily." Microwave ovens, compressors (for making the cocaine into bricks), electricity generators, gas canisters and communications equipment were also captured. The jungle in Nariño is criss-crossed by a network of small rivers that empty into the Pacific. Cocaine is transported on high-speed boats into the ocean, and from there to Central America and eventually the U.S. This year, the 29th Front of the FARC and the AUC's "Liberators of the South Bloc" have worked together in smuggling cocaine down the rivers, despite, theoretically, being at war with each other. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/g0CDCD/tzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
