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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

[chottala.com] Eight veiled women 'caught smuggling £7.5m of drugs into Indonesia'



 

Eight veiled women 'caught smuggling £7.5m of drugs into Indonesia'

 
Drug deal: Iranian nationals pictured with their luggage, inside of which customs officers found a large quantity of drugs, in Jakarta on Wednesday. The Customs Office arrested 10 Iranian nationals for attempting to smuggle the drugs, worth Rp 102 billion (US$10.5 million). JP/Nurhayati
 
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 12:45 PM on 21st October 2009
 

Eight veiled Iranian women have been caught allegedly trying to smuggle £7.5m of drugs into Indonesia.

The women, who were joined by two men, tried to 'fool officers where women in black veils are generally considered to be good women'.

The group of apparent drug smugglers were found with 27kg of crystal methamphetamine at Indonesia's Soekarno-Hatta airport today. 

On show: Armed Indonesian customs officers parade the drug smuggling suspects following their arrests at the country's main airport today

On show: Armed Indonesian customs officers parade the drug smuggling suspects following their arrests at the country's main airport today. Six of the eight women are still wearing their burqas

They also had 23 litres of the drug in liquid form, said customs chief Anwar Suprijadi.

It is the largest drug bust in the airport's history, he said, describing how the group had arrived on flights from Malaysia, Syria and Qatar on Monday and Tuesday.

Indonesian authorities have never seen veiled women used as drug runners, he said.

The drugs, wrapped in plastic food containers and cleaning fluid bottles, were packed into hand luggage. But the oddly-shaped packages were picked out by officers operating scanners.

'We believe they are part of an international syndicate,' he said.

By wearing conservative Islamic clothing the women tried to 'fool officers in a country like Indonesia, where women in black veils are generally considered to be good women', he explained.

Suspects: Two of the women, stripped of their headscarves, bow their heads as armed guards look on

Suspects: Two of the women, stripped of their headscarves, bow their heads as armed guards look on

Nine suspects were paraded in front of the media at an airport detention facility today, while a tenth is said to have attempted suicide and was in a hospital. A 26-year-old man, who allegedly carried the liquid drug from Doha, tried to sever an artery with a razor blade.

Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and traffickers are regularly sentenced to death. By the end of 2008, about 140 people were on death row, including more than 40 foreigners, most of them for drug-related crimes.

Customs offices across Indonesia, a vast Muslim-majority nation of 235 million people, were warned to be on the lookout for other possible smuggling attempts.

Poor law enforcement, corruption and high demand make Indonesia an attractive location for drug producers.

On display: The women hold their heads in their hands as customs officials rifle through their luggage

On display: The women hold their heads in their hands as customs officials rifle through their luggage
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1221933/Eight-veiled-women-caught-smuggling-7-5m-drugs-Indonesia.html#ixzz0UdBEPtTe


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[chottala.com] H1N1 Separating Facts From Fiction

The propaganda about the H1N1 virus and
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No matter which way you look at it, the
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away any time soon. There are far more
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From the WHO Regional Office for the Americas
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As of October 11, 2009
approx. cases of the H1N1 in the US - 153,697
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[chottala.com] China investment in Myanmar soars



China investment in Myanmar soars

Human rights groups say investors are supporting continued abuses in Myanmar [GALLO/GETTY]

Foreign investment in Myanmar soared to nearly $1bn during the last fiscal year, the country's military government has said, a six-fold increase over the previous year with the bulk of the funds coming from China.

According to a report from the Ministry of National Planning and Development, released on Thursday, investment jumped from $172.7m in the 2007- 2008 fiscal year to $984.9m.

The ministry said 87 per cent of the total invested in Myanmar came from China.

The surge in investment comes despite wide-ranging sanctions imposed on military-ruled Myanmar - formerly known as Burma - that have virtually cut off any investment from the US and European Union.

The country has large and underdeveloped reserves of oil, gas and timber as well as minerals and precious stones.

But human rights groups say that almost half a century of military rule has seen Myanmar's ruling generals exploit the country's rich natural resources for their own gain while leaving the rest of the population mired in poverty.

Strategic projects

China's investment in Myanmar is focused mainly on energy and natural resources, which its needs to fuel its rapidly expanding industrialisation and urbanisation.

According to reports Chinese corporations are involved in at least 90 hydropower, mining and oil and gas projects across the country.

The projects include construction of hydropower dams as well as a large pipeline project across the length of Myanmar aimed at transporting gas and oil to China's landlocked southern Yunnan province.

Despite increased investment, many of Myanmar's citizens live in extreme poverty
The pipeline is designed to open the Indian Ocean for fuel shipments and act as a means to circumvent the congested Straits of Malacca, through which over 70 per cent of China's current oil and gas imports travel.

Sean Turnell, associate professor of economics at Macquarie University in Sydney, told Al Jazeera that resource extraction is the primary means for Myanmar to access to foreign investment.

"Considering the country is a risky place to invest in, projects to extract Myanmar's resources are favoured by the government because it can yield a quick return," he said.

Beijing's commercial advance into Myanmar comes while the United States and Europe impose strict trade and investment sanctions against the military government.

But while the US recently imposed sanctions on the import of precious stones from Myanmar, observers say China's presence in the gem mining and export industry has soared.

A recent Myanmar government-sponsored gem fair in Yangon, the former capital, netted the military government an estimated $175m.

Non-interference

China has become one of Myanmar's closest allies in recent years, but Beijing has long insisted that it does not tie politics to business and follows a strict policy of non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries.

Aung Zaw, a Burmese exiles and editor of the Thailand-based Irrawaddy magazine, told Al Jazeera that China's non-interference in Myanmar's domestic politics was aimed at squarely protecting its interests.

"The only reason China doesn't want to say all that much about Myanmar's actions, is because of its projects in the country," he said.

"It is protecting its own interests, but recently, considering the events going on there now, it has voiced concern that the ruling generals may not be able to achieve stability."

 Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
 
 
 
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