Jamaican Police try to arrest drug lord. Locals shoot back

[Ziggy Stardust]

Jamaica would be more likely (if at all) to request UK or Canadian troops in any case. the Queen still is the Head of State of Jamaica as I recall.

Indeed, it is not unlikely that other Commonwealth regiments could be called in. The Bermuda Regiment, for example, actually has alternate facilities on the island, and has performed exercises there.

[Aaron]

Jamaica is still used by the Canucks for jungle warfare training, not as often as it once was but the connection is still there. They'll undoubtedly want to keep this in house as much as they can though.

[MKSheppard]

What should happen is a 225 kiloton nuclear device be initated at optimal HOB over the hovel the drug lord and his supporters are hiding out in. Then we move in with death squads assistance units to shoot all survivors render humanitarian aid.

At least thats how I would do it if I went momentarily mad. Does that answer your question SHROOMALACHUS?

[Captain Seafort]

What should happen is a 225 kiloton nuclear device be initated at optimal HOB over the hovel the drug lord and his supporters are hiding out in. Then we move in with death squads assistance units to shoot all survivors render humanitarian aid.

Wouldn't that cause problems with regards to identifying which pile of ash is the bloke you're looking for?

[General Mung Beans]

Because it is a plausable soloution, taking U.S. combat troops and loaning them to the Jamaican government for the operation.

It's a fucking stupid idea, for both governments. From the US point of view, they'll be sending US troops into a complex environment where there's way too high a chance of taking casualties, to invade a bunch of poor and starving blacks, with a good chance of killing innocent civilians, an absolute certainty of killing someone who will be called an innocent civilian by the media later, to catch an accused drug baron who'll be replaced in days anyway. From the Jamaican point of view, they'll have to explain allowing a foreign power to send in troops to attack and kill their own civilians in their own city, and of course attacking your own loyalists with foreign troops isn't highly recommended as the best way to inspire loyalty.

Jamaica would be more likely (if at all) to request UK or Canadian troops in any case. the Queen still is the Head of State of Jamaica as I recall.

However Grenada got intervened by the US albeit it was more of a foreign policy concern that Jamaica right now.

[xerex]

KINGSTON (AFP) – Slum dwellers in Kingston are seething with anger at Jamaica's security forces' house-to-house searches for a powerful druglord, with the death toll rising but no trace of the operation's target.

Police said Thursday that 73 bodies have been found in morgues, some in a state of decomposition, although several deaths may not have been linked to the four-day-old assault. Three security personnel have died.

Heaps of sometimes smouldering garbage littered streets of western Kingston, a world away from Jamaica's world-famous beaches and the stronghold of gangster Christopher "Dudus" Coke -- who is wanted by the United States on drug charges.

Outside one ramshackle apartment, a woman who said she had been inside for two days pushed aside with a rake the rotting body of a cat she found at her doorstep.

"What we need is money and food," said a middle-aged woman named Marlene. "Coke, he take care the community. Not the soldiers, they just shoot."

Residents accused security forces of firing indiscriminately in recent days.

US prosecutors accuse Coke and his "Shower Posse" gang of funneling cocaine and marijuana to New York and other eastern US cities, contributing to violence that has caused thousands of deaths in both countries.

But many poor Jamaicans look to Coke as a hero who provides a semblance of protection on some of the world's most dangerous streets, along with small-time jobs and education.

Walls were covered with artwork depicting Coke's father and don predecessor, Jim Brown, who died in a mysterious fire at a police jail in 1991.

One portrait read "Jim Brown: One Man Against the World," next to images of other revered figures including reggae superstar Bob Marley and Ethiopia's late emperor Haile Selaissie I, a demigod in the Rastafarian faith.

The relationships between the gangsters are government are complicated. At election time, Coke had mobilized for Prime Minister Bruce Golding's Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), while other dons have supported the opposition.

Near crumbling guesthouses and restaurants selling jerk chicken -- businesses that according to locals were run with Coke -- graffiti urges support for the JLP and, "We Want Bruce."

Golding, who represents Tivoli Gardens in parliament, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after months of hesitation, vowing both to capture Coke and to battle Jamaica's scourge of crime.

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