A theory...
Kmguru: "Anyway...it is very interesting. I hope, our real enemy stays dumb."
Your real enemy sleeps in the White House (or nearby) and is not dumb at all (I wish he were...)
I will tell you something that a friend of mine told me back in 1992. At that time, the Argentine government had lent the Bolivian Air Force three excellent combat planes made in Córdoba (the IA-63 Pucará), a twin turboprop with speciall handling capabilities that made it ideal for insurgence control in jungle areas, as air support for ground troops, because they are faster than choppers (can avoid ground misiles better) and can fly slow enough, at very low altitudes. The three Pucarás were sent to the Beni jungle area --"red area", full of narco traffickers-- and a team of Argentine Air Force pilots and tech crews was in that Army/Air Force base --deep, deep in the jungle.
The Commodore in charge of the team was Comm. J. Cordero, a pilot and Aeronautical Engineer, a good friend of mine since our youth. He told me the following story, that I believe because there are lots of things that fit in (and mostly because my friend is not a liar or have hallucinations): About a wek after they reached the base, and had made good acquaintance with the Bolivian pilots that were being trained on the new Pucarás, one morning the Argentine team was called to a reunion in the "Casino de Oficiales" --the Officers Club-- and were ordered to remain there until new orders. No explanations were given. Just sit, drink beer and play cards. Don't get out, don't get near the windows.
But about 15 minutes later, after he questioned one of his Bolivian student pilots about what was going on, the pilot just put a finger to his lips and said: "Follow me, and be silent". He took him to the second floor and through the small window of a bathroom he pointed to an C-130 Hercules from the US Air Force that was unloading blue plastic drums (220 liters) by the back platform door. The drums went to a hangar property of the US Air Force (the US was helping Bolivia fight drug trafficking with the DEA, some CIA agents, and many Bell "Huey" choppers.).
When the unload was completed, Bolivian and American GI's started to load the C-130 with big packs of black plastic (cubes of about 70 cm a side). The packs were heavy, as each pack was carried by two men. When the plane was loaded, the engines started and took off flying north. Soon afterwards, the Argentine team was released from the Officers Club and activities returned to normal. Comm. Cordero learnt from other Bolivian officers that the C-130 was flying to Fort Bragg, OK. This strange thing happened once every week, and lasted for the two months my friend was stationed there. He told me he had the chance to see, before returnig home, many blue drums of the same type unloaded from the C-130. They still had labels reading: "Sulphuric Acid" or "Acetone - Dimethyl ketone", known precursors for making the cocaine base paste, and the later refining to cocaine hydrocloride. The labels in the drums also read: "Made in USA".
This is a key piece for a gigantic puzzle: when you fit enough pieces together, the picture looks ugly. Keep in mind this were times of George Bush, Sr. Then comnes Col. Oliver North who is another key piece: with the Iran-Contras affair he taught the US. Department of State the way to get good funding for nasty undercover operations without asking Congress for it, as the US Congress <b>believed then</B> that the US should behave in a proper manner and refrain from going everywhere subverting or invading countries just "because".
And soon the State Department learned how easy was to get away with it. It even managed to make Oli a Senator! So, the way I see it, the DEA in Bolivia is fighting competitors, that is, independent narcotraffickers that didn't reach an agreement with the DEA (20% local, 80% DEA) and think they can beat the DEA, the radars, the US Coastguards, the Navy, the Air Force, the US Customs, etc. They refuse to realize that the only ones that are allowed do it are the US C-130s that fly directly from the Beni jungle to Fort Bragg, NC.
This side of the drug trafficking must be framed into a wider frame: You must link it to the old Empire building businees of opium and heroin, products coming from the poppy flower, grown in Turkey, Irak, Iran, but mostly in Afghanistan. The British have conducted this ancient business since mid 1800s and keep doing it. It is not news that the "mujaideen" were armed by the US and England, because the Russians had taken over the poppy business from them.
But the fools didn't take into account the Talibans crazy and religious nature, so the matter soon went out of control, with all the consequences we know. The Afghanistan and mujaideen operation was the idea of Zbigniew Brzezinski, and was set up and run under his supervision, when G. Bush was Carter's vicepresident, (he was runnig also dirty operations in Guatemala and El Salvador with Oli North) as well with the aid of such characters as <b><i>Sir</i> Henry Kissinger, <i>Sir</i> G. Bush Sr.</b>, (who was put in the position of head of the CIA by Kissinger) and <B>Georg Soros</B>, a long time supporter of legalizing drugs. As long as these stooges remain on the loose, the world will not be a safe place.
Just a theory, ...or perhaps not?
