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WORLD
Friday, September 8,2000
THE BATTALION
Smugglers
construct
submarine
FACATATIVA, Colombia (AP)
— In a scheme worthy of Jules Verne
that awed even veteran naval officers,
Colombian drug traffickers were
building a sophisticated submarine to
smuggle narcotics, reportedly with
help from American and Russian
criminals.
The 100-foot submarine could
have crossed an ocean, surfaced off
Miami or other coastal cities and sur
reptitiously unloaded its drug cargo.
Top officials flocked to the ware
house Thursday to marvel at the
lengths that Colombian drug traf
fickers, who supply more than 80
percent of the world’s cocaine and a
rising share of its heroin, go to export
their illicit products.
When police arrived, there was no
one around. Surveillance cameras
had been placed on the roof. No ar
rests have been made.
Navy Capt. Fidel Azula, a former
submarine captain and member of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said even the
Colombian navy lacked the knowl
edge to build such a vessel. “This is
unmistakably of superb naval con-
structiop,” he said.
Seized documents, including
■blueprints, contained Russian- and
American-sounding names. There
were indications Russian engineers
were involved, including “a very
professional engineer who has con
structed submarines before,” Ar-
reguin said.
Previously, smugglers have out
fitted passenger planes and ships to
transport drugs, and even built some
tiny fiberglass “submersibles” to fer
ry drugs to a mother ship. But they
were mere contraptions compared to
this sub, which measured over 11 feet
in diameter.
Officials believe the traffickers
would have transported the sub in
three sections to the coast aboard
tractor-trailers.
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Indonesia urged
to quell uprisings
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KUPANG, Indonesia (AP) -
Frightened U.N. relief workers were
evacuated from West Timor on
Thursday, fleeing rampaging mili
tias, and the caskets of three slain
workers were airlifted out, draped in
blue U.N. flags and covered with
tropical flowers.
"This was
done at a time
when I am in
New York, at
the United
Nations, in or
der to embar
rass me."
— Abdurrahman Wahid
Indonesian president
With the suspension of interna
tional aid operations, some 90,(XX)
refugees were faced with potentially
disastrous shortages of food and
medicines in their squalid camps on
the western side of the border that di
vides Timor island into the Indone
sian west and the U.N.-administered
East Timor.
At the United Nations, President
Clinton urged Indonesia to “bring
those responsible to justice, to disarm
and disband the militias and to take
all necessary steps to insure the safe
ty of those continuing to work on hu
manitarian goals there.”
Indonesian President Abdurrah
man Wahid, humiliated before scores
of world leaders at the U.N. Millen
nium Summit, promised he would
work with the U.N. administration in
East Timor on removing the hostile
militias from the border region. "But
to remove such a number of people
needs time,” he said.
He insisted his forces had tried to
prevent Wednesday’s attack, which
left three aid workers, including an
American, and three civilians dead.
Witnesses say soldiers stood by with
out stopping the mob.
“We protected them, but it's a
problem of a cultural nature,” Wahid
told journalists, saying tribal differ
ences fueled the militia problem.
Wahid has often blamed such
rogue military' elements of triggerins
bloodshed and mayhem in Timor and
elsewhere in Indonesia to derail at
tempts by his 11-month-old govern
ment to build a new democracy after
decades of authoritarianism.
Indonesia’s official Antara news
agency quoted Wahid earlier as say
ing Wednesday’s attack was engi
neered by his domestic political foes
“This was-done at a time whenl
am in New York, at the United Na
tions, in order to embarrass me,”he
was reported as saying. He did not re
peat the accusations when speaking
at the United Nations.
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for immigrant trafficking
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The suspected leader of a smug
gling ring connected to the deaths of 58 immigrants was under surveillance 1
before the bodies were found, but police had no clear proof he was involved
in human trafficking, the justice minister said Thursday.
Benk Korthals told a special parliamentary session that Dutch police
had been watching the suspect and others.
The suspect, whose name has not been released in line with Dutch pri
vacy practices, was being “observed once or tw ice a week for some time.’
Korthals said. But, he said, the suspects were not being followed the day
in June when the Chinese immigrants were packed inside a truck’s un
ventilated refrigeration container for the trip to England.
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had suffocated in the back of the airtight truck during the five-hour ferry
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