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Naval investigators launched White Stallion in May 1995 after two sailors based in Naples were arrested as they arrived at the Rome airport with 6 kg of Turkish heroin, expecting, as military personnel, not to be searched by customs. The sailors turned out to be couriers for Nigerians plying the Golden Crescent heroin trail. That route begins in the opium fields of Afghanistan, runs through refineries in Turkey and then the wholesaling hubs of Italy and terminates in needle parks throughout Western Europe...
...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 worldwide." Which is why the White Stallion case is galloping ahead...
...that spread to the fuselage. Within 90 seconds smoke had engulfed the passenger compartment. The crew's prompt evacuation of the passengers drew praise from a controller who watched the scene through binoculars--but also caused the FAA to order close inspections of engines ValuJet had purchased from a Turkish airline...
...Moscow of the gold treasures unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann [ARCHAEOLOGY, April 22], I was surprised that part of the article seemed to be a propaganda tool for Turkey to claim ownership. There was no ancient Turkey, and the ancestors of the modern-day Turks did not inhabit the Turkish coast, also known as Asia Minor, in ancient times. So do these artifacts truly belong to the Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens, the crowning...
Schliemann's brazenness didn't stop there. His original dig was done without a permit from the Ottoman (now Turkish) government, and when he later got permission, it was with the understanding that he would split what he found with the Turks. But he smuggled many objects out of the country. When Turkey sued for the return of Priam's Treasure, Schliemann bought the Turkish share for a fraction of its value. He donated the treasure to Germany...