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Dead men tale no tales
In which the author affords the Reader a glimpse of the dark Underbelly of the Beast as availed him by a former friend deep in the thrall of the Darke Side of the Bodie Politick. The view from The Redemption, again both froward and rearward at once.
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Updated January 9, 2021
Law enforcement officers in The Gambia discovered nearly three tonnes of cocaine in a salt shipment from Ecuador, its drugs agency said Friday, in the tiny West African country’s largest-ever seizure.
Officers searching a container in the port of the capital Banjul on Thursday found 118 bags of the illegal white powder, which were labelled as industrial salt, according to a statement from The Gambia’s Drug Law Enforcement Agency (DLEAG).
The container was part of a consignment of four containers originating from the Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil.
Lamin Gassama, DLEAG’s intelligence director, told AFP that the 2.9 tonnes (6,400 pounds) represented the largest ever drugs haul in The Gambia a poor nation of some two million people, and the smallest on mainland Africa.
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1Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
2ARTIS International, St. Michaels, MD, United States
3Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
4Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
5Department of Theory and Analisys of Comunication, Faculty of Sciences of Information, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
6InReach Global, Centre for Psycho-Social Research & Training, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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