NATION : Drug Route Interdiction Planned
President Bush is completing plans to have the U.S. military interdict drug supply routes from Latin America, the White House said today. A defense official said one proposal includes drawing a “much, much tighter noose” around Colombia with a virtual air and sea blockade.
Bush’s spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, confirmed that “final plans are now being made” to interdict “supply routes in South and parts of Central America,” but he offered no specifics.
The overall program is evolving from proposals that senior military commanders submitted to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. He, in turn, relayed them to the White House.
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