U.S. recovers ‘narco submarine’ with 7.5 tons of cocaine

Playinghardball

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:32 AM
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U.S. recovers ‘narco submarine’ with 7.5 tons of cocaine

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

The U.S. Coast Guard has released video of a so-called “narco submarine” that was recovered last month with 7.5 tons of cocaine, worth an estimated $180 million.

During a July 13 confrontation with the Coast Guard, the vessel sank. On July 26, they recovered it with the help of the Honduran Navy and FBI dive teams.

Narco submarines are responsible for nearly one-third of all cocaine in the U.S.

Watch this video from CBS News, broadcast Aug. 1, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/u-s-recovers-narco-submarine-with-7-5-tons-of-cocaine/

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Hollywood is gonna dry up real soon...lol

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socialshockwave

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:33 AM
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1. ~We all live in a narco submarine...~ n/t

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jpak

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:47 AM
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6. LOL!!111

:toast:

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Blue Owl

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:34 AM
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2. The periscope is really just a giant straw

n/t

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EOTE

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:41 AM
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3. It appears that the Coast Guard undervalues their finds, unlike the DEA.

15,000 lbs at $180 million comes out to be around $26 a gram by my math. I'd imagine that would be rather cheap. Often times the DEA will seize a large amount of cannabis and claim its street value to be somewhere between $20 and $30 a gram for dirt schwag, which is insane. But hey, maybe our insane drug war has brought the per gram of cocaine price to under that of bud.

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FSogol

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:43 AM
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4. They made this up, right? - "Narco submarines are responsible for nearly 1/3 of all cocaine in US"

C'mon, narco submarines?

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EOTE

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Mon Aug-01-11 12:20 PM
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7. I don't know how they'd determine that, but "narco submarines" aren't exactly new.

It's the natural evolution of drug trafficking.

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MilesColtrane

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:45 AM
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5. Q: What's long and hard and full of seamen and cocaine?

A: A narco submarine

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Shagbark Hickory

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Mon Aug-01-11 12:22 PM
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8. That excellent news.

Keep that life-destroying shit out.

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