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Vesto Times; News of Vestropulania
Topic Started: Jul 16 2014, 02:29 PM (346 Views)
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President Announces New Initiative to Solve Drug Crisis

Newly elected President, Lucas Venier, announced a set of new actions that the government will begin taking to help curb the spread of drug production in the country. “For too long, honest citizens of our country have had to put up with the rampant spread of drug kingpins and gangsters, aided by corrupt government officials who are placed in office with drug money. For many years the central government has known that the provinces cannot contain the spreading of illict drug production, yet has done nothing to help eliminate this problem. That changes today! Today I am announcing a series of new measures to help curb the growth of drug production, while the brave men and women of our military move into the jungles to help clear out these parasites, a plague to all honest citizens. I am hoping that this new initiative will start our country, Vestropulania in a new age of prosperity and peace, free from the violence and destruction that the drug trade has brought to our beautiful land. Thank you very much.”
This is the first time in over twenty years that an incumbent president has taken such a strong stance against the drug trade since the death of President John Sumpter in 301. Vestropulania has long had problems with drug cartels, with large tracks of the southern jungle still uninhabited. Large Slums in major cities such as Plactonam and Oklahoma along with it’s long border with Noberia have made Vestropulania a major drug hub in the last fifty years. It yet remains to be seen if President Venier’s new plan will come to fruition or fall apart, as many have done.
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Vesto Cops invade drug-infested slum

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Vesto Federal police and internal security units invaded what they characterized as a "slum" close to the Lyisville airport on Sunday as the start of the government's difficult task of driving out the violent and ruthless drugs gangs.

The targeted area gained the distinction of being as one of the most prolific and deadly drug-trafficking cities in Syntreal. Besides making a large number of arrests, the police confiscated a large number of firearms and other weapons such as daggers, machetes, and switchblades.

More than 1,000 police officers and military armored vehicles participated in the pre-dawn invasion on one of Lyisville's dilapidated neighborhoods.

Throughout the operation there was only one death attributed to the anti-crime operation: a 15-year-old boy was killed during a gang-fight between two rival drug gangs.
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Vesto Police continue Anti-Drug Operation
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More than 1,400 police officers and Vesto marines rolled into a massive complex of slums in Plactonam before dawn on Sunday in the latest security push.

The Mare complex of 15 slums became the latest impoverished area to see security forces move in to take control and try to push out heavily armed drug gangs that have ruled Plactonam's shantytowns for decades.

In the coming days, soldiers will begin patrolling the virtually treeless, flat area of about 5 sq km (2 square miles) in northern Plactonam that hugs the main road to the airport and is home to about 130,000 people.

Security forces will eventually set up permanent posts in Mare as part of the "pacification" programme that began two months ago and is part of the presidents new anti-drug initiative. Police have so far installed 12 such posts in recent weeks in an area covering over 500 thousand people.

Jane Smith, an elderly woman who was making her way to church in Mare as officers from Plactonam's elite SWAT police unit quickly moved past, said she welcomed the presence of the state.

"This had to happen and it's about time," said Smith, a longtime resident of the area. "We've needed to clean up this neighbourhood for so long, but we've always been ignored. For too many years these gangs have been ruling this place."
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Military Discover Mass Grave in Jungle
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Vesto soldiers have found the bodies of 72 people dumped at a rural southern location after a gun battle with suspected drug cartel members that left one solider and three suspects dead, the military has reported.

The corpses of 58 men and 14 women were found at a spot deep in the Cardohesian jungle, south of the border city of Menoplinatoville. The site is thought to be the largest dumping ground of drug cartel victims found in Vestropulania since the president, Lucas Venier, announced an offensive against the drug cartels.

The military said in a statement: "The federal government categorically condemns the barbarous acts committed by criminal organisations."

"Society as a whole should condemn these type of acts, which illustrate the absolute necessity to continue fighting crime with all rigour."

Vesto drug cartels often use waste ground, ranches or mine shafts to dump the bodies of executed rivals or kidnap victims. The military gave no details on the victims' identities, on their killers or on whether the bodies had been buried.

The find came about when soldiers manning a checkpoint on a highway in the southern state were approached by a wounded man who said he had been attacked by cartel gunmen at a nearby jungle retreat. The man was placed under the protection of federal authorities.

Military aircraft were dispatched to the scene. When gunmen saw them, they opened fire on the soldiers and tried to flee in a convoy of vehicles.

In the ensuing shootout, one soldier and three suspected gunmen were killed. Military personnel seized 21 assault rifles, shotguns and rifles, and detained a minor. The youth, who was apparently part of the gang, was handed over to civilian prosecutors.

When soldiers searched the area, they found the bodies. It was unclear whether the victims had been killed at the same time or separately, and the military did not say when they were found.
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Vesto SOF strikes Narco-Traffickers
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This past week a joint police and military operation commenced in the Cardohesian jungle in which Vesto forces launched multiple synchronized strikes against clandestine airfields used to smuggle an estimated 1.2 tons of cocaine per day. Four 30-man teams were reportedly launched from a base in Muscatown to begin the process of disabling the illegal airfields with explosives, probably cratering charges in this case. The Vesto troops were drawn from the police counter-terrorism directorate and a Special Forces unit however there are rumors that Navy personnel were also conducting the operation with law enforcement

Twenty of the narco-airstrips were destroyed during the course of the two day operation as well as a series of drug caches found near the airfields themselves. The flat river valley is surrounded by mountains, making it ideally suited for drug cartel and terrorist activities. Using demolitions to create craters in jungle airfields to prevent the planes from landing is a temporary measure at best because the holes can be quickly filled in by the drug traffickers, but this is one of the measures that Vesto forces are not limited too. In the past, Vestropulania had an air interdiction program but it was shut down after they shot down an airplane carrying Noberian missionaries in 25 years ago.

While Vesto Special Operations and law enforcement operations limit drug trafficking operations, it seems clear that ground operations need to be combined with renewed air interdiction operations in order to be effective. Until the government establishes the air interdiction program Vesto troops may very well be fighting the tide with one arm tied behind their back. The successful operations demonstrates the professionalism and commitment of Vesto's police officers and Special Operations soldiers, but a successful long term strategy needs to be hammered out to ensure that these efforts do not go to waste.
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Illegal Logger's and Drug Runners force native tribe out of isolation
ISOLATED native people wearing loincloths and carrying bows and arrows have emerged from the Cardohesian rainforest and made contact with the outside world in a desperate attempt to seek weapons for their battle with illegal loggers and drug runners.

In a sign of their removal from the modern world, the native people’s request for weaponry wasn’t to ask for guns — they apparently wanted axes and knives.

After the native people made initial contact with the native's two weeks ago, a team from Vesto's National Indian Foundation (VNIF) travelled to the area and filmed a second encounter on yesterday.

The people at first emerged only briefly and then returned to the forest, said VNIF official Rachel Traviss, “They were whistling and making animal sounds,”

Two indigenous interpreters were then called in to speak with them on their next visit. “They speak our language. I was so happy we could talk to each other,” said one of the interpreters, John Swanson, “They described being attacked by non-native people and many died after coming down with the flu and diphtheria,”

Anthropologist Terri Johnson said the group had probably come in search of axes, knives and pots, “This is a people looking for technology. It’s important in their lives because there’s an internal war among them and because of contact with non-indigenous groups,” he said.

VNIF said the group had returned from the forest after their initial visit because they had contracted the flu. A government medical team was sent to treat seven from the group. International aid organization, White Cross said the episode was extremely worrying, since influenza epidemics have wiped out entire tribes in the past.
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Vesto Police seize "narco-submarine"
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Yesterday, the Vesto Anti-Narcotics Police Forces in cooperation with Vesto military authorities seized a fully-operational submarine built for the primary purpose of transporting multi-ton quantities of cocaine.

The investigation of the captured submarine and the individuals responsible for its construction is ongoing. Several individuals have been taken into custody by Vesto authorities at the site of the seizure.

The twin-screw, diesel electric-powered submarine is about 30 meters long and about nine feet high from the deck plates to the ceiling. The sophisticated vessel also has a conning tower, periscope and air conditioning system.

Vesto Police release a new brief today concerning the operation, “Traffickers historically employed slow moving fishing boats, sail boats, pleasure craft and subsequently go-fasts. Eventually, when speed no longer won the day, traffickers to avoid detection, turned to parasitic devices on the bottom of ship hulls, towed array devices and ultimately low profile vessels and semi-submersible boats. The advent of the narco-submarine presents new detection challenges for maritime interdiction forces. The submarine’s nautical range, payload capacity and quantum leap in stealth have raised the stakes for the counter-drug forces and the national security community alike.”

The submarine was constructed in a remote jungle environment in an effort to elude law enforcement or military interdiction, and is currently located near a tributary close to the Vesto border. As a result of Vesto intelligence, authorities were able to seize the vessel before it was able to make its maiden voyage. This is the first seizure of a clandestinely constructed fully operational submarine built to facilitate trans-oceanic drug trafficking.
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Vestro builds giant Cardo Observatory
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Construction has begun on a giant observation tower in the heart of the Cardohesian basin to monitor climate change.

The Cardo Tall Tower Observatory is expected to rise 325m from the ground.

Its instruments will gather data on greenhouse gases, aerosol particles and the weather in one of the largest continuous rain forests on the planet.

Vestropulania and Noberian scientists hope to use the data to better understand sources of greenhouse gases and answer questions on climate change.

The tower is being constructed out of steel that was brought thousands of kilometers from the north of Vestropulania to the site, about 160km (100 miles) from the Cardohesian city of Muscatown.

Because of its height, the tower will make it possible to investigate the alteration and movement of air masses through the forest over a distance of several hundred kilometers.

"The measurement point is widely without direct human influence, and therefore ideal to investigate the meaning of the forest region for the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere," said Jurgen Kesselmeier, the project coordinator for the Noberian side.

The Cardo jungle is one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems, with a powerful influence on the intake and release of carbon into the atmosphere.

"The tower will help us answer innumerable questions related to global climate change," said Paulo Artaxo, from the University of Plactonam and project coordinator for Vestropulania.

The tower will be integrated into an existing structure of smaller measuring towers in the region.
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Vestro police foil terrorist attack in largest raid ever
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Vestropulania security officials say that they have thwarted an alleged plot by cartel members to conduct attacks against police.

The revelation comes after raids on 25 homes across Vestro cities early Thursday morning by more than 800 uniformed police officers, forensic experts, and agents from the military, in the largest counterdrug raid every conducted on Vestro soil.

The raids resulted in the seizure of computers, documents, a firearm and the arrest of 15 suspects, one of whom, 22-year-old D'haran Richard Level, will face court trials later in Plactonam on Thursday, when details of the alleged plot are expected to be revealed.

“You know it is of serious concern that right at the heart of our communities we have people that are planning to conduct random attacks,” Muscatown police commissioner Lawrence Baker said at a press briefing. “Today we worked together to make sure that didn’t happen. We have disrupted that particular attack.”

The swoop took place on the same day that 10 Vestro military aircraft, 400 support personnel and 200 special-forces troops were dispatched to the jungle as part of the continuing operation against drug cartels in the region.

The raids also follow the arrest last week in Lyisville of two suspects at an bookstore, accused of recruiting fighters for the cartels, and an announcement by the government that the country’s terrorism-alert level had been raised from medium to high.

Clive Williams, an adjunct professor with the Department of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at the Vestro National University, tells the Vestro Times that the recent cancellation of the passports of up to 60 citizens suspected of cartel links may have inadvertently increased the chance of an attack on home soil.

“The policy of stopping cartel members from traveling overseas has resulted in increasing pressure on the cartels,” he explains. “Their major markets are not in Vestropulania, but in other countries such as Mestra or Noberia. As a result of the actions b the government, it had been increasingly difficult for them to ship their drugs to overseas markets.”
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