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British soldiers ‘smuggle heroin from Afghanistan’

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Military police are investigating allegations that some British troops returning from duty in Afghanistan are involved in drug trafficking, bringing heroin home with them on flights coming into RAF Brize Norton.

The MoD is taking the claims seriously, increasing the use of sniffer dogs and body and luggage searches on flights which bring 700 troops a week back from Helmand. The checks are so rigorous the MoD has apologised to innocent troops for the inconvenience.

The Hampshire-based Special Investigations branch of the MoD’s military police started their investigation after receiving a tip-off that a network of UK soldiers is buying drugs from dealers in Afghanistan. The investigation centres on British and Canadian troops based at Kandahar’s Camp Bastion.

An MoD spokesman said: “We take any such reports very seriously and we have already tightened our existing procedures, both in Afghanistan and in the UK, including through increasing the use of sniffer dogs.”

Robert Fox, The First Post's defence correspondent, said the revelation was, if anything, somewhat overdue: "If it's true, it comes as no surprise. The use of heroin - and the peddling of it - were rife in the Red Army when the Russians occupied Afghanistan.”

There is also a long tradition of profiteering among soldiers – as portrayed, fictionally, in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 where mess officer Lt Minderbinder buys and sells his way around the globe.

Opium growing is worth £2bn a year in Afghanistan, which produces 90 per cent of the world supply. Of that, more than half is grown in Helmand province. One Afghan drug dealer spoke to the Sunday Times last year. Identified only as Aziz, he said: “Most of our other customers, apart from drug lords in foreign countries, are the military. The soldiers whose term of duty is about to finish, they give an order to our boss.

“As I have heard, they are carrying these drugs in the military airlines and they can’t be reached because they are military. They can take it to the USA or England.” ·


Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/11683/british-soldiers-%E2%80%98smuggle-heroin-

cry for? just stay to the point.

What point?

That the UK Goverment could ban Arik landing at Heathrow because someone (not the whole establishment) decide to push the white stuff,

Oh please! get real, this is not the 60's

Failed products of Nigerian education system.

Quote of the 2011,

You sounding nasty just makes me see the undisciplined and ignorant part of you.

You sound like you want to cry? should I get you a tissue?

Now, cretin explain to me how "War on Drugs, War on Terrorism" is relevant to this and makes it a "set-up".

tick tock!!! tick tock,

We are waiting?

Or else we would stop the voting for LOONEY OF THE YEAR 2011

And hand over the GONG / Award to you despite the fact that we still have 10 days to go,

if you think this can't stop Arik from flying to UK you guys are dead wrong,,,

Bro give it up!!!!

Your wrong!!!

SAME REASON A MARRIED YORUBA WOMAN MRS ESTHER AKANBI WAS SCREWING HER BOSS

Such a petty move!!!

an air hostess or the whole airline? they can push this to their parliament and win on not allowing owned airlines from Nigeria. Look at it in a political view and with the current affairs on ground.

What a load of Rubbish?

A terror suspect was caught a year or 2 years ago working at Heathrow Airport, It didnt stop every country stopping their airline landing at the airport. Even the son of former Prime Minister Margeret Thatcher was involved (alleged) trying to plot a coupe in the oil rich country Equatorial Guinea it still didnt stop the African country selling oil to the British government.

why are the igbos always soiling the name of this country? as soon as i saw the thread title i knew it would be an ibo! jeez!

I dont support the above statement!!!!!!

But I wonder what would have happened if it was a yoruba lady that was caught? This site would have crashed by now!!!!

No 2, even if they set her up, what are they going to achieve? You think this can be used to stop Arik from flying?

Spot on,

Even if she was a terrorist! it still wont stop Arik flying to Heathrow,

smells fishy to me also, first it was NAA cant fly to UK then now this.

It wasnt a set-up,

What would BAA gain if the set up an air hostess?

Its bad enough the tension between the BAA and Arik,

Then we have this i.diot trying to push the white stuff across the atlantic.

Stephen Morah(NYSC)

na levels o! Buh itz crookedly funny!

Atleast we know his real age!!!

Not Correct. Taribo played for Milan in his last season in Italy. He played two seasons at Inter (97-99) but moved to city rivals Milan after the 98-99 season. He spent the 99-00 season at Milan.

Taribo played 4 games as a SUB, so to say he excel at Milan is false, I know he did well at Inter but I could remember a game against Fiorentina where Brazilian star Edmundo made a real mockery out of Taribo West,

At the heights of Milan's dominance, Taribo West ; a Nigerian played and excelled at AC Milan. I beg great Maldini to allow Taiwo flourish, he could yet get it right, FORZA MILAN

Taribo played for Inter Milan and not AC Milan, theirs a lot a Centre Back could get away with, but a full back NEVER!!!! look at when age caught up with babayaro? Ben Iroha didnt last 2 seasons, Udeze another flop, because a mordern day fullback should be able to play as a wingback and winger,

The BBC award is voted by fans

the CAF award is voted by country managers or Captains

You are as old as you feel

JLO looks fit and she takes care of herself compare to Genevieve who is 10 years younger

New International Version (©1984)
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Genesis 2:24

and please don't tell me u didn't notice the little sarcasm there which was represented by the *tongue* emoticon and the "interpretation" thingy

Nope!!!


I was going to say Issac lived with Abraham and Sarah

Esau and his 2 wives lived with Issac and Rebecca till their death

Jacob and his children lived with him with their family (apart from Joseph)

the bible says a man shall leave the mum and dad and be joined to his wife and that includes not living with them in the same house in my own little interpretation

Where does it say so ?

The Gospel truth is that I second everything that Okija_juju has written,

The main fact here is that when you blindly support someone without knowing the true fact, seems dangerous, I could remember the day when someone compared Gadhaffi to Ojukwu, thats when so many people came out and spew their anger!

Jeez I said to myself,

For someone to sign up to join the Army actually means you are prepared to die for what you believe in or die while serving your country, but when you lead a group to war and then run away in the middle of the cross-fire, then come back and people still idolize you? then you start think about the mindset of the people you once led. I have heard of Soldiers going to prison because they refuse to go to war, whereas we have someone who led the troops and decided to run away, then return and still been treated like he is the next miracle after our Lord Jesus Christ.

Well its either a particular tribe are forgiven or extremely stupid!!!

This is something you wont find among the Indians because the wife knows that one day they would be in the same position sometime the future, because they protect their sons like gold dust,

The problem here is that the woman or wife is happy her mother to come and live with them forever

Its a common thing among the Asians and some Igbos


Atleast the mother-in-law would have the chance to do a full scaled credit check or scoring on her new daughter-in-law

abegi d best thing happening to Africa's football in Europe and the world is Alex Song. Nt even yaya toure or any african player can match his style of play. Song is d best

He is not even the best African player in London let alone playing in the Premier League!!!!

Old news, Jason Bourne every day of the week

Nwa Nise, Ekene'm ghi.

Now that’s as much respect as I will accord you for the purpose of this discussion.

Now, I will teach you some manners that will serve you well in your future, Respect! Respect others, not just your elders, but the opinions and wishes of every single man regardless of age as well. I have no obligation whatsoever to prove to you or any other person my ethnicity. You are not Igbo as a result of your personal decision. We are what we are. You might as well have been a descendant of Gen. Adekunle Benjamin (a.k.a Black scorpion) the commander of the much dreaded 3rd marine commandos that took more Biafran lives than any other platoon in that war. Get over yourself and this Igbo blood nonsense. Cheap sentiments would always becloud your sense of reason.

Now! I have always said it that I had a very great respect for Ojukwu until a certain point. When you said steps he took to rescue the Igbos from the slaughter house of the North, I do not disagree with you at all. Infact, I still say it that the greatest thing Ojukwu did in his entire existence was calling back all Easterners living in the North to return home. That was the smartest, logical, reasonable and wisest thing to do at the time. When he called them back, he brought them back into a safety zone. No single Easterner was murdered on Eastern soil during the duration of that pogrom from all accounts.

Now that was the end of his good legacy (as far as I am concerned). I still say it and maintain that the second he declared the independence of Biafra (regardless of the failure of the Aburi accord) without due preparation for the resultant conflict that such a move would cause, he put the same people he had rescued from danger in even greater danger. And even the time he chose to do it (breakaway) even made matters worse. The lives lost in that conflict were not worth it especially since he didn’t believe in the cause enough to die for it. Now I can forgive him for letting power, greed and every other good and bad reason push him to put us in such a precarious situation. Every man has a reason for doing what they do. But what I consider unforgivable was him running away when the battle came to his doorsteps. I can and will never forgive leading the Igbos to a battle and their deaths only to turn around and dessert us. When he ran, it made the sacrifices of the over 2 million Igbos, Niger deltans and all that died on the Biafrann side useless. The people who sing his praises and can genuinely defend their reasons for why they feel that Ojukwu is a hero deserving of all the posthumous awards and accolades, I respect. We don’t have to agree but then again that’s why we all are who we are. Differences of opinions are bound to exist. Infact, opinions are as numerous as there are humans with a brain. Now the people I despise are the zombies such as yourself. People who are born followers. People who just join the crowd and clap and sing without knowing what it is they are clapping about. And what makes your lot even more despicable is the fact that you come into a conversation with your little knowledge and alot of hearsays and try to shove it down the throats of intellectuals. Between the both of us, I have studied manuscripts, articles, books and have firsthand accounts from veterans of that war and drawn my own conclusions on what I "FEEL" went down in that conflict, you on the other hand, all you have is cheap repetitious hearsay arguments that you prolly picked up from beer parlours and other such places where charlatans such as yourself converge. For you to totally exonerate him of any blames in the atrocities of that conflict shows that you have a myopic knowledge of the events surrounding that conflict. Did you know that Ojukwu himself was partly to be blamed for the mass starvation of Biafrans that occurred during that conflict?!

Once more, I would advice you to go home and start reading. I do not need you to agree with me, all I want is for you to have an objective view of events. And just so you know, I Nwa Agwuku Nri that goes by the moniker Okija_juju does not give a rat’s a'ss about "Igbo blood" and other such trivial sentimental bullshi't that most of you ethnic bigots throw around. What have you and your lot done to make Igboland better? Your likes are part of the problem. Over 40 years since that ill-thought conflict ended and not 1 Eastern city is operating at up to 15% of its potentials. Instead of coming out to call a spade a spade you run around beating your chests calling yourselves Nwafors with absolutely nothing to show for it. You are not more Igbo than I am. Go read your history, if Nri is indeed the Anscestral Home of all Igbos as we are told, then I am more igbo than your entire clans blood put together. DO not insult me ever again in your life.

You can come back and have a rational discussion whenever you feel you have enough knowledge on the subject matter and can put aside your sentiments in a conversation.

Have a good day!!

Thank you,

Like they say Information is good, but little information is very dangerous!!!!

you couldnt put it any better!!!

When the leader is acting like a Looney, what chance does the rest have!

@orkija juju. Ojukwu did not force anybody to war he only wanted to pull igbos from the madness called nigeria were they were killed like animals. Today, the middle belt wants to do the same thing, the CAN in the 19 states of the north wants nigeria devided( Nigerians are so selfish that it is only when something touches them personally that they care. May the fulanis keep killing the middle belt and the people in the north be they christians or what ever, let the igbos come home if they want alife). My uncles would always tell me they were not forced to war, my dad was shot in the leg, my dad has never for once regreted spilling the blood of hausa/fulani. Okija juju, u are a mis informed fool.

Well Ojukwu forced the war upon the Igbos,  whether you were armed or not!!!

ZUWO  We are discussing a very important issue and you are here blabbing nonsense

Whats important here!!!


Let the man REST IN PEACE!!!!

You dont hear the Germans naming a University on either side of the Berlin wall Aldolf Hitler University