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To: Dealer who wrote (32306)	9/8/2000 9:56:47 AM
From: Dutch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Dealie, My little risky biotech IDBE is green. :) Dutch

To: Dealer who wrote (32306)	9/8/2000 10:29:17 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

DEEP THOUGHTS...C-Sub....... "Just Add Water" Drug-Running Submarine Seized BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Russian-designed submarine in the process of being built to smuggle drugs out of Colombia was confiscated on Thursday outside Bogota, authorities said. The National Police said the 100-foot sub was seized in a raid on a warehouse in a working-class neighborhood 18 miles west of the capital. No one was arrested. Police chief Gen. Luis Ernesto Gilibert said Russian-language documents found alongside the partially completed vessel indicate that ``the Russian mafia or Russian technicians'' were involved in its construction. Gilibert said that once the drug sub was completed, it would have been broken up and brought to Colombia's Pacific or Caribbean coast where it would have been riveted back together and launched. He did not speculate on why the vessel was being assembled in the landlocked Colombian capital perched in the Andes mountains some 8,530 feet (2,600 meters) above sea level. Gilibert, who spoke to reporters while inspecting the sub in the suburb of Facatativa, estimated that it would have had the capacity to carry at least 150 metric tons of cocaine or heroin on any given voyage out of Colombia. ``This was undoubtedly going to serve to take a lot of this country's cocaine overseas,'' Gilibert said. The seizure was reminiscent of a 1994 case in which two mini-subs used by Colombian drug traffickers were seized off the Caribbean port of Santa Marta. Leo Arrequin, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Colombia, said documents found in the warehouse with the sub may implicate two Americans in the building of the vessel or in future smuggling operations. ``I've never seen anything like this in 32 years of police work,'' Arrequin said. Colombia is estimated to supply about 80 percent of the world's cocaine and much of the heroin sold on U.S. streets.