Posted on 10/23/2001 4:55:37 AM PDT by Wolfie
LOYALISTS CASH IN ON HEROIN GLUT
LOYALIST terror bosses are set to bankroll a drugs epidemic in the North, with towns and villages flooded with heroin at just one pound a fix.
Police believe UFF and LVF warlords have already cut a deal with drugs gangs in Scotland to cash in on a worldwide glut of the deadly narcotic.
It's estimated that 90% of heroin sold in Britain is produced from opium grown in Afghanistan, where the harvest has more than doubled this year.
More than 4,600 tonnes of the drug is available, and dealers around the globe know they can slash their own prices and still make millions in addicting a new generation.
Police working on counter-drugs operations have spent months probing the links between loyalist paramilitaries and heroin traffickers in Scotland.
They have now drawn solid connections between the supply line and two loyalist paramilitary organisations. And they believe the drugs racketeering is being sanctioned by senior figures in each group.
The UFF has formally denied that caged boss Johnny Adair had anything to do with drugs, despite RUC sources' view that he is fully aware of what is going on. Last week, it was alleged that he would make himself available for drugs tests under a new regime at Maghaberry Prison, because he is set against the use of narcotics and has never taken them.
But RUC sources are insisting that the links to the darkest reaches of the Scottish drugs scene run deep into paramilitary veins in the North.
Those same murky links, and the supply line down through which the drugs are filtered, were also being investigated by Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan, when he was ruthlessly gunned down by LVF killers near his home in Lurgan last month.
Police have been forced to act because of the dramatic rise in heroin use. In north Down, there are an estimated 400 addicts and a rising death toll.
Undercover police know that one of the main drug routes is through Liverpool, with the deadly cargo of death being ferried via a number of Scottish towns to drop points along the rugged Northern coastline.
One senior RUC officer, who has witnessed the terrifying effects of spiralling drug use at first hand, said: "those with loyalist paramilitary links control about 80 percent of the drugs trade here and reap the benefits without getting their hands dirty.
"The impact of heroin at knockdown prices on our streets could create anything up to 10,000 new addicts. When you have dragged kids who have taken overdoses out of pub toilets and alleyways, you realise there has to be a well-funded multi-agency and community approach to this problem. If it takes off, we are facing a nightmare," he added.
Scum.
Police working on counter-drugs operations have spent months probing the links between loyalist paramilitaries and heroin traffickers in Scotland.
How long until someone posts a response to the effect that they heard a story from their brother's boss' nephew's best friend about how the IRA was helping the Nazis 60 years ago, as proof that the findings in this article are not true?
Incidentally, this stuff is almost certainly coming in courtesy of clinton's good Muslim Albanian buddies, who run the drug pipeline from Asia to Europe. After he let his drug-running friends back into Kosovo, the drug supply to Europe was said to have shot up immediately.
There's no mention of the terrorists acutally being drug users. THAT would make them genuinely bad people.
What do you think the Colombia Three were going to be paid with for their services?
The republican apologists here like to keep their heads where the sun don't shine!!
And you thought the democrats were good at scamming us with taxes!
BTW I'm a 100% verified descendant of Robert Lundy.
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