A Gulfstream jet grounded by authorities in July 2008 after it was suspected to have been involved in a plot to transport more than 600 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela, is seen at Guinea Bissau international airport January 10, 2010. Credit: REUTERS/Tim GaynorFrom Reuters:
TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11."
The document warned that a growing fleet of rogue jet aircraft was regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean. On one end of the air route, it said, are cocaine-producing areas in the Andes controlled by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. On the other are some of West Africa's most unstable countries.
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