G-Bissau 'to shoot drug planes'
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Planes trafficking cocaine that enter Guinea-Bissau's airspace will be shot down, the government says.
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Guinea-Bissau police say they hold five al-Qaeda members over the killing of French tourists in Mauritania.
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Portugal is set to join the growing list of countries with drug-injection sites where addicts can shoot up while supervised after Lisbon city hall approved the establishment of two such facilities.
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BOGOTA -- One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast yesterday, claimed credit for the 1993 killing of rival drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying he supplied police with a tracking device that allowed them to hunt down the Medellin drug cartel leader.
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The U.S. Justice Department is  investigating whether CIA officials lied to Congress about the  Peru aerial drug interdiction program, which remains suspended  three years after an American missionary plane was mistakenly  shot down, several U.S. government sources said on Thursday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with...
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LISBON, Feb 1  (IPS) - Guinea-Bissau is an ideal African springboard for  Latin American mafias to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into  the wealthy European Union market.
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The alleged plotters of a coup in Equatorial Guinea are "blood-thirsty pirates" who deserve the firing squad, the country's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said.
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Paraguayan anti-drug agents seized their biggest cocaine haul in 15 years after searching a small airplane near the border with Brazil, a state prosecutor told Reuters on Thursday.
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BOGOTA (AP/dpa) - The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) plotted to assassinate US President George W. Bush during his recent visit to Colombia, the Colombian government said Saturday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The most important commanderof Colombia's largest rebel army ever captured was handed toU.S. authorities at a Bogota airport to be extradited to theUnited States Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnappingcharges.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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A quadrupling of incoming suspected drug flights in the past two years has forced Haiti and the Dominican Republic to face up to the fact that the island they share is a major transshipment point for cocaine bound to U.S. and European consumers.
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Equatorial Guinean prosecutors will be travelling to South Africa this week to piece together the alleged plot to overthrow their government.
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An alleged plot would have targeted a U.S. military base and Frankfurt International Airport, authorities said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia's  largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a  Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on  cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A spree of "pirate" raids on  vacation homes around the chic Brazilian beach resort of Angra  dos Reis has led police to mount air and sea patrols over the  holiday season, a security official said on Thursday.