19 October 2008

Cocaine traffickers switch from boats to submarines as they swamp US with drugs
Colombia's drug barons used to favour high-speed powerboats to export their deadly cargos, leading law enforcers on high-speed chases as they swamped America with narcotics.
Now, in an attempt to evade American surveillance, they are diverting their smuggling trade beneath the waves. Coast Guard and military patrols have reported a dramatic increase in do-it-yourself "semi-submersible" vessels that evade radar and sonar, barely breaking the ocean surface as they creep through the Pacific or the Caribbean. > Read more.

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