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Night after night, Nigerian gangsters trolled the bars and fleshpots of Naples for reckless young Yanks. The bait: a weekend excursion to Turkey, all expenses paid, and a fat wad of walking-around cash. The job: carrying a backpack stuffed with heroin on the return flight from Istanbul to Rome...
...sailors, it may have been an offer too good to refuse. The Pentagon confirmed last week that 20 Navy enlisted men and women, one lieutenant commander and at least one U.S. civilian were involved in an international drug-trafficking operation directed by Nigerian organized-crime barons. Five sailors have been convicted of drug-smuggling charges and are serving time in Italian prisons or the Navy brig in Rota, Spain. The rest are awaiting trial or further investigation...
...Nigerian crime lords have earned a reputation as some of the world's most proficient drug smugglers. Savvy too: they realized their own comings and goings were being closely watched by antinarcotics agents in airports throughout Europe and the U.S. So they scoured after-hours joints in Navy ports of call, looking for dupes. "The key was a clean-cut appearance, a U.S. passport and the ability to be tempted by $25,000 to $30,000 for a weekend's work," says Lieut. Commander Bill Spann, the Navy spokesman in Naples...
...Naples conspiracy was cracked by a petty officer who went undercover and infiltrated a suspected social clique of young enlisted men and women who called themselves "the Regulators." Wearing a body wire and tape recorder, he eventually made direct contact with some Nigerians who tried to recruit him to go to Turkey for heroin and to Brazil for cocaine. Italian and Turkish police following his leads arrested seven people in Turkey and seized 4.5 kg of heroin. "We don't view this as a Navy problem or a Naples problem," says Spann. "This group of Nigerians is targeting U.S. personnel...
...folk-pop sound isn't a watering down of rock but a maturation of the form, connecting pop to its past and giving it a future among adults. Seal, born in London to Nigerian parents, admits that he began singing so his "distant" father would notice him. With his Unplugged show, Seal should win the ear of many more adults. --C.J.F...