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Submarine found 2,250 mts above sea level (being built for drug smuggling!)
Technocracia.com ^ | Diciembre 20, 2005 @ 6:20 pm

Posted on 12/22/2005 1:27:54 AM PST by FreedomPoster

Police in Colombia say they have found a half-built submarine in a warehouse in a suburb of the capital Bogota (2,250 metres (7,500 ft) above sea level,). Police chief General Luis Ernesto Gilibert said Russian documents were found alongside the partially-completed vessel.

He said the 30 metre (100ft) vessel would have been capable of carrying huge quantities of cocaine or heroin.

He speculated that, once completed, the submarine would have been disassembled and taken by lorry to to Colombia’s Pacific or Caribbean coast.

When police raided the warehouse in the suburb of Facatativa they found the building equipped with closed-circuit cameras but devoid of people.

High quality

Instead there was the startling sight of a sophisticated submarine under construction.

“It was between 30% and 40% complete and had its engine room ready,” General Gilibert said.

“The technology is advanced and the workmanship of high quality.”

The Russian documents at the site led police to speculate that the Russian mafia or Russian technicians were involved in its construction.

Bogota is landlocked and lies 2,250 metres (7,500 ft) above sea level, but is a source of high-quality building materials - which may explain why it was chosen as a submarine boatyard.

Submarines have been used by Columbian drug smugglers before - in 1997 two mini-subs were seized off the Caribbean port of Santa Marta.

Huge

But this submarine is a much bigger vessel.

“In 32 years I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Leo Arreguin, the US Drug Enforcement Administration director in Colombia.

“This is huge. We’re talking about being able to load up to 200 tonnes of cocaine in this submarine.”

Mr Arreguin said documents discovered at the site showed that two Americans may also have been involved, but did not elaborate.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 5yearoldnews; colombia; drugsmuggling; drugwar; submarine
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To: burzum
"I think someone has a conceptual error about how a submarine works It needs to be in the water, not in the mountains! Now the question is where the drug cartel's air force is."

ROTFLOL!!!!!!
21 posted on 12/22/2005 3:49:09 AM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (sayyy....this Al Qaida thing looks serious....)
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To: FreedomPoster
"“This is huge. We’re talking about being able to load up to 200 tonnes of cocaine in this submarine.”


Hollywood's supply must be drying up!
22 posted on 12/22/2005 3:52:02 AM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (sayyy....this Al Qaida thing looks serious....)
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To: Squantos; Travis McGee; Jeff Head; archy

Hmmmm, agreed.

Check out #8; it seems the site I linked was recycling news from 5 years ago.


23 posted on 12/22/2005 4:52:51 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
the Navy is very good at detecting submarines
You can never be real sure that anyone is good at finding something they don't think is there. And a sophisticated small submarine ("huge" relative only to tiny minisubs) "should" not exist, therefore is likely to escape notice.

Or so the theory must have run . . .


24 posted on 12/22/2005 5:23:05 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Next week the site reporting this sub will report on the JFK murder as new news.lol


25 posted on 12/22/2005 5:26:51 AM PST by stockpirate (John Kerry & FBI files ==> http://www.freerepublic.com/~stockpirate/)
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To: stockpirate

Exactly!


26 posted on 12/22/2005 5:28:08 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
The problem with something like that is that the Navy is very good at detecting submarines and there could be no innocent explanation for one found near a US coast, especially in our territorial waters.

On the other hand, it could make the Columbia to Marseille run with zero chance of detection. ;)

27 posted on 12/22/2005 5:28:48 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When government does too much, nobody else does much of anything." -- Mark Steyn)
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To: FreedomPoster

Is this not the equivalent of building a boat in one's basement? ;-)


28 posted on 12/22/2005 5:30:36 AM PST by verity (The MSM is a National disgrace.)
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To: HAL9000

i knew i had seen something like this before


29 posted on 12/22/2005 5:32:24 AM PST by wardaddy (They took most of my Dixie heritage......they'll have to take Christmas from my cold dead hands)
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To: verity

Very much the same sort of idiocy, only bumped up a quantum leap in magnitude.


30 posted on 12/22/2005 5:33:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: NAVY84

I was thinking the same thing. I can see terrorist surfacing off our coast, dropping off insurgants or firing missiles at close range.


31 posted on 12/22/2005 5:54:12 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: Mr. Jeeves

"On the other hand, it could make the Columbia to Marseille run with zero chance of detection."

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Not a chance. If a codfish farts in the North Atlantic, we know it.


32 posted on 12/22/2005 6:06:44 AM PST by Roccus
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To: FreedomPoster
LOL. based on the headline, I thought a submarine had found 2,250 mountains above sea level being built for drug smuggling. I clicked on the article to see what the heck-cuz I was wondering why they needed a sub to find them, why in the world they built mountains for drug smuggling, etc.
I have decided I need either more coffee or to go back to bed.
33 posted on 12/22/2005 6:07:57 AM PST by I_saw_the_light (back to bed. definitely.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Should have been posted in breaking news.


34 posted on 12/22/2005 6:12:10 AM PST by Rebelbase (Green bean casserole is a culinary curse upon mankind.)
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To: FreedomPoster

I know this was posted just recently, but any Idea of when this sub was actually found?

SFC


35 posted on 12/22/2005 6:17:51 AM PST by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: FreedomPoster

Looking at the photo as a professional mariner I spot things a lot of the other posters overlook.

I see two attractive females.


36 posted on 12/22/2005 6:35:21 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: roaddog727

5 years ago!

I think post 8 found the BBC version from 2000. It's in the thread, in any case.


37 posted on 12/22/2005 7:19:39 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Junior

Yes. Looks like the same sub even.


38 posted on 12/22/2005 7:30:02 AM PST by bvw
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To: FreedomPoster

Ok. Thanks.

We thought it was old news - just wanted to make sure.


39 posted on 12/22/2005 7:45:53 AM PST by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: roaddog727

Noah's Ark!


40 posted on 12/22/2005 7:48:05 AM PST by stocksthatgoup ("It's inexcusable to tell us to 'connect the dots' and not give us the tools to do so." G W Bush)
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