Royal Navy in the Gulf
I almost forgot about the famous catch by King Billy, I mean Prince William but this story is related:
US Navy: 30 tons of drugs seized in Gulf
Tue Jul 15, 5:28 PM ET, AP
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Coalition warships seized 30 tons of narcotics over the past five months on Gulf patrols, cutting off possible funds for insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. Navy said in a statement Tuesday.
The majority of the busts were carried out by the British navy. Drugs seized included hashish, opiates, cocaine and amphetamines, the statement said, without giving a specific breakdown.
Commodore Keith Winstanley, the British navy's commander in the Middle East, said illegal drugs are "one of the gravest threats to the long term security of Afghanistan and a vital source of funding for the Taliban warlords."
Winstanley said the seizure of the drugs dealt "a significant blow to the illegal trade."
Afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said last month that the country also appears to have become the world's top grower of cannabis, overtaking Morocco. The resin from cannabis is molded to create hash. UNODC estimates that some 170,000 acres of cannabis were grown in Afghanistan last year, up from 120,000 acres in 2006.
What to do with all that contraband?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/world/main4227844.shtml?source...
"a significant blow to the illegal trade."!!!!!
you must be joking !, by the latest official estimate, the % of drug that is sized worldwide is less than a mere 3 to 5 %, at that rate we will never see the end of it and knowing that drugs were used by maya, romans etc.. i would say that this is part of the human race and if we colonize one day mars or the moon with the first settlers you will see the first drug dealers arriving
Don't wait for the last judgment it takes place every day.
"Albert Camus "
the more drugs seized at the source means less helpless drug addicts on the streets.