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US in 'al-Qaeda cocaine sting'

A court in the US has for the first time charged suspected members of al-Qaeda with plotting to traffic cocaine in order to fund terrorism.

The three suspects, who are believed to be from Mali, were extradited to New York from Ghana.

They were arrested this week in an operation involving informants posing as Colombian leftist rebels.

The suspects allegedly offered al-Qaeda protection for moving cocaine from West Africa through the Sahara to Spain.

They arrived in the US on Friday and were ordered to be held without bail after a brief court appearance. They did not enter pleas to charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, US officials said.

Washington has long been concerned about close ties between militants and the heroin trade in Afghanistan but the African case appears to show an expansion of both al-Qaeda's global operations and the US response, The Associated Press news agency reports.

Lebanese cover

The US authorities say the men are associates of al-Qaeda's North African branch and had told US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informants that al-Qaeda could protect major shipments of cocaine in the region, driving the drugs by lorry through the Sahara desert.

All in their 30s, the suspects were named as Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure and Idriss Abelrahman.

Unsealed court papers say Mr Toure and Mr Abelrahman at one point claimed the profits from the drug business would "go to their people to support the fight for 'the cause'".

The DEA infiltrated the group by using informants posing as supporters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc.

In particular, the DEA used a French-speaking informant posing as "a Lebanese radical committed to opposing the interests of the United States, Israel, and, more broadly, the West and its ideals", court papers say.

The informant claimed in secretly taped conversations that the Farc were looking for a secure means of smuggling drugs through western and northern Africa on the way to Europe.

During the negotiations, the al-Qaeda suspects allegedly offered to move cocaine from west Africa to north Africa for about 3,000 euros ($4,200) per kilo.
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'Legal high' drugs banned in UK

A ban on several drugs known as "legal highs" has come into force.

The substances, including GBL and BZP, become Class C drugs, with a possible two-year jail sentence for possession.

Ministers moved to classify them after a recommendation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and fears they are a threat to user health.

GBL was linked to the death of medical student Hester Stewart, 21, in Brighton last April. Her mother, Maryon, campaigned nationally for the ban.

So-called legal highs are typically man-made chemical substances designed to act like banned drugs.

Scientists, officials and police officers have been concerned for several years that GBL, BZP and other so-called "legal highs" have been sold openly across Britain and on the internet, despite evidence that they can be harmful to health.

GBL, which metabolises in the body into the already banned drug GHB, will become a Class C drug carrying maximum jail terms of two years for possession and 14 years for supply.

Piperazines, of which BZP is the most popular, are also being made Class C drugs.

This group of drugs is popular on the club scene as an alternative to ecstasy and amphetamines.


Synthetic cannabis has also been banned and become a Class B drug. Possession of products such as "spice", a herbal mixture laced with psycho-active chemicals, now carries a maximum five-year jail term.

Fifteen anabolic steroids, associated with drug abuse in sport, have also been classified as Class C.

HAVE YOUR SAY Banning something does not put it under the control of the government. If anything it removes government control and places control in the hands of dealers Rob, London, UK

Police chiefs say their response will be proportionate and focused on dealers.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the government was committed to raising awareness of the dangers of psychoactive substances through its Frank campaign, but also wanted to send a clear message to those thinking of using the drugs.

"We are cracking down on so-called 'legal highs' which are an emerging threat, particularly to young people," said Mr Johnson.

"That is why we are making a range of these substances illegal from today with ground- breaking legislation which will also ban their related compounds."

Crack substitute

Scientists at the Forensic Science Service laboratories have recently discovered that drug dealers in London have been using one of the newly-banned drugs to manufacture fake "crack cocaine".

Dean Ames of the FSS said: "We occasionally see materials that appear to be crack cocaine, that end up being innocuous substances [such as] candlewax as crack cocaine.

"But, quite recently, we have seen a new form of drug that has been submitted to us that actually contains piperazines and would resemble a crack cocaine-type substance."

Piperazines were first developed as a worming agent and are also used in some manufacturing processes. The FSS says "legal highs" based on the chemical have become more prevalent than ecstasy.

Wednesday's ban is unlikely to be the last. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will next year consider a new wave of so-called "legal highs", which are based on a group of chemicals known as cathinones.

However, the recent controversy over the sacking of the council's chairman, Professor David Nutt, and the subsequent resignation of council members in protest, could mean any final recommendations are delayed.
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haha fuuuuuck

boom bye bye in a a batty bwoi 'ead

lets hope there no hard feelings from al dem batty men in prison
 
still a chowwwwn mind
well as much as a song that talks about peeling off gay mens skin off with acid then burning their bodies in a ditch can be :D
 
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still a chowwwwn mind
well as much as a song that talks about peeling off gay mens skin off with acid then burning their bodies in a ditch can be :D
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Yeah that's a tune. I will never understand black people oppressing homosexuals for the way they were born when they should know exactly what it feels like. Madness.
 
jamaicans seem to have a massive problem with men going down on women too
 
make's you a batty man, it's considered as bad, or nearly as bad as being gay, vaginas are considered unclean
 
I thought Buju had completely changed his ways and was purely a "Rastaman-Ganja-tokin'-chillah" these days, apparently not 8)
 
There are a fuckload of reggae/dancehall MCs called banton, banton just means heavy badman MC bredda
 
fuck this is getting off topic but did you play much gta4? cruising round liberty city listening to this track on massive B radio was fucking class!
 
Evad said:
fuck this is getting off topic but did you play much gta4? cruising round liberty city listening to this track on massive B radio was fucking class!
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Yeah nothing like smoking old bill while listening to dancehall. It just feels so right.
 
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Baby seal found in garden, 18 miles from sea
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 11:13 AM



A seal pup found by a family in their back garden 18 miles inland has been nicknamed Rudolph.

The animal was spotted by Harriet Dwyer, 24, sitting in the snow at the house in Benenden, Kent, England, on Monday.

Her father, Professor Tim Dwyer, said: “It was bizarre, really. My daughter was out with our dog Jack in the snow when she came in and said ’There’s a seal in the garden’. I said ’No, it must be an otter’. We all went out and under the hedge was a seal looking quite chirpy and slithering around in the snow.”

It is thought the pup, which is just under a year old, emerged from the tiny stream at the bottom of the garden after swimming up the River Rother which leads out to the English Channel.

Prof Dwyer, who works at London South Bank University, said: “I went back indoors and rang the RSPCA and police. The seal made its way across the garden into the pond, where it sat happily staring out of the pond in an enchanting way with its eyes just above the water.”

The family tried to contain the seal with the aid of collie Jack before assistance arrived.

Prof Dwyer, 51, said: “He was very good and, as collies do, he has a rounding instinct. The dog was quite happy to keep it in one place.

“My daughter, not very inventively, called it Rudolph, which seemed appropriate as it was sitting around in the snow.”

The pup was eventually coaxed into an animal crate and taken to the RSPCA’s Mallydams Wood Wildlife Centre in Fairlight, Hastings, East Sussex, where it has been renamed Gulliver after its fondness for travelling.



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