26 February 2009

Spanish police have arrested 11 people, including professional footballers and agents from Fifa, over alleged involvement in drugs smuggling.

Six hundred kilogrammes (1,320lb) of cocaine have been seized.

The Spanish authorities believe the suspects were using their football connections as a cover for drugs trafficking.

Spanish news reports claim one of the former players detained was with first division club Atletico Madrid.

The same reports allege the leader of the drug smugglers is an ex-manager with a French first division team.

The police say two recruiting agents from Fifa (the International Football Federation), together with former and current professional footballers, are among the 11 people arrested in cities across Spain.

The police found the cocaine hidden in packets among machine parts for wind farms inside a shipping container in Madrid.

The drugs had been transported to Spain by boat from Argentina.

The authorities alleged the Fifa agents organised this smuggling operation while on a trip to Latin America recruiting professional footballers.

Last year Spanish police arrested more than 8,000 people for cocaine-related offences.

According to studies by the European Union, Spaniards consume more of the drug than any other nation in Europe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7913620.stm

Or maybe they got greedy like Manuel Noriega as he presided over Panama while on the CIA payroll. Okay, it wasn't greed. It is more likely they were driving down the price when the market is flooded just when the CIA needs money the most. The world wide depression cannot get in the way of the New World Order.

I remember when the USG put on both its terrorist and aggression against peace hat and invaded Panama to take out Noriega. My uncle was a lawyer and so was his second wife and they said it was highly, obviously, and clearlyi llegal to arrest Noriega, as if the illegality of the invasion is to be ignored.

So does anyone agree or disagree with the illegality of taking Noriega and putting him in a US prison in the manner in which it was done?

Yeah, does everyone remember what preceeded those events? A videotape allegedly handed to CNN from Noriega (roughly, its hard to remember things which fell into the black hole of media blackout) involving GHWB? The part I remember is the FBI swooping in the like the hand of god and taking the tape from CNN. Not that they would have to these days. Damn youse Ted Turner.
That shit should be on YouTube right now.