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Balkan War Victor: Heroin; New Routes Convey Drug Across Europe
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The war in Yugoslavia's former republics and porous borders in
Eastern Europe have spawned an epidemic of drug smuggling through a
half-dozen new routes that are conveying record amounts of heroin to
West European markets, according to U.S. and European investigators.
The rapid rise in heroin traffic has coincided with a jump in
clandestine weapons sales in Europe that officials fear may sustain
and possibly expand the Balkan wars. "Merchants of death and
merchants of drugs go hand in hand, and never has it been more true
than now," a senior European drug intelligence officer said.
The heroin ...
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