The Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States is losing its patience with the Bahamas’ half-hearted attempts to control its growing drug smuggling problems.
DEA chiefs are not happy with Bahamas Attorney General Alfred Sears whose questionable morals and well established incompetence has allowed the extradition list to grow to over 250 drug dealers.
There were about 60 dealers on the list when the PLP took over in 2002. The Punch newspaper reports that Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has reportedly been been advised by top-level US officials to instruct Sears to “get his act together” on extradition. They further advised the PM that the slowness of the A/G’s office is giving the impression that the PLP government is deliberately delaying extradition cases out of loyalty to the drug dealers or because the politicians are afraid the drug dealers may call their names when testifying in a US court.
Many US officials are losing faith in the sincerity of the PLP government’s fight against illegal drugs, especially since the PLP has a notorious record of being deeply involved in the drug smuggling business going back to the 1980s.
US Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff wants as many as 250 dealers to be extradited as quickly as possible.
Mr. Chertoff is determined to break up the smuggling rings operating in the Bahamas, Jamiaca and Haiti. These groups also smuggle illegal aliens and weapons, along with cocaine and marijuana.
Homeland Security Chiefs view drug smugling into Florida as a serious threat to US National Security. They are aware that the lack of morals and ethics in the drug smuggling business may lead to some dealers being tempted to smuggle suicide bombers, missiles or chemical weapons into the US, the same way they currently smuggle drugs.
