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2006-04-04 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2006-04-04 08:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 5 YEARS ??????????????????????????????

five tons of hashish and a half-ton of heroin
sell Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to the Taleban and Al Qaeda

Posted by ARMYGUY 2006-04-04 08:50|| 2006-04-04 08:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm with you Army Guy. What the hell, over?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-04-04 09:13|| 2006-04-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's hope he really spilled his guts to get a deal like this.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-04 10:22|| 2006-04-04 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 According to the article, two of the gentlemen in question are Pakistainis, one a naturalized American citizen of Indian extraction. As I recall, all three were settled in the U.S. with their families at the time of the arrests. So, five years in the calaboose, followed by immediate deportation, along with the families no longer having visible means of support. The wives and children (not to mention the extended family whose lives had been so much more comfortable on the remittances they'd been receiving from their Stateside relative these many years), deprived forever of the lifestyle to which they were happily accustomed, should be enough to make the gentlemen long for their prison days the rest of their sorry lives.

Not that I'm feeling vidindictive or anything.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-04 11:54|| 2006-04-04 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Among drug dealers in the 70s it was a known fact that $20k would get them a lot of drugs in South America but $20K in weapons would get a whole lot more. Then the problem was how to consumate the deal without the weapons being turned on the dealer afterwards.

The interesting twist here is the drugs are delivered in the US. The story doesn't explain where the weapons were to be exchanged. Drug suppliers don't usually show that much savy. By already having smuggled the drugs into the US they could ask for way more weapons per unit of drugs.

That should have raised red flags to them. (they were a bit greedy.) If a dealer had weapons to sell, they are easier to export than drugs are to bring in. A sharp dealer would have just made the deal in Pakistan. (His return would have been so much better.)

They were idiots that they didn't suspect this.
(maybe using their product?)

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-04 17:04|| 2006-04-04 17:04|| Front Page Top

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